
CAPFILM: PERSONA – Image, Sound & Silence Art House Film Series
CAPFILM: PERSONA – Image, Sound & Silence Art House Film Series
CAPFILM: PERSONA – Image, Sound & Silence Art House Film Series
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By the mid-’60s, Ingmar Bergman had already conjured many of the cinema’s most unforgettable images. But with the radical Persona, this supreme artist attained new levels of visual poetry.
In the first of a series of legendary performances for Bergman, Liv Ullmann plays a stage actor who has inexplicably gone mute; an equally mesmerizing Bibi Andersson is the garrulous young nurse caring for her in a remote island cottage. While isolated together there, the women perform a mysterious spiritual and emotional transference that would prove to be one of cinema’s most influential creations.
Acted with astonishing nuance and shot in stark contrast and soft light by the great Sven Nykvist, Persona is a penetrating, dreamlike work of profound psychological depth.
The film will be introduced by York College Professor Ian Olney.
Image, Sound and Silence
An Art House Film Series
Art House Film is one of the most bold, dynamic and influential parts of cinema history. While its impact on filmmaking is significant, it is extremely broad, can be challenging to access, and may be difficult to know where to begin. This series—the first of its kind to be presented at the Appell Center—is designed as an introduction, opening the door for our audiences into the wide world of the Art House.
We will explore pivotal film movements, screen films across different eras, celebrate national film traditions from around the globe and filmmakers who have made far-reaching impressions on world cinema.
Whether you are completely new to these films or have seen them many times before, we hope to create a community around this series; encouraging audiences to share their thoughts through discussion following the full theatrical experience and sparking a continued sense of creative exploration.
Films in the Spring/Summer 2025 Art House series include:
- PlayTime (3/9)
- Journey To Italy (4/27)
- A Separation (5/11)
- Chimes at Midnight (6/15)
- The Exerminating Angel (7/20)
- Persona (8/17)