11. Uluslararası Eskişehir Film Festivali
Bergman was trying to keep his modesty with his words, “Cinema was never a routine for me where one tells about daily events or common lives. Cinema is an art where one tells about his dreams. Here appears a wall for the director; and there are the ones remaining in the routine side of the wall, and the ones staying on the other side of the wall, on the fictional part. Kurosawa, Fellini, Tarkovski, and sometimes Antonioni, for me, were directors on this other side of the wall. My aim as an artist was to be on that side of the wall, just like these people, but I could only pound on this wall a couple of times.” He did not only pound this wall between what we thought as reality and our dreams, he also smashed and knocked this wall down in a way nobody can rebuild again, with his 54 films like; “Crisis”, “Thirst”, “Wild Strawberries”, “The Seventh Seal”, “Through a Glass Darkly”, “Shame”, “Cries and Whispers”, “The Touch”. What gave him this strength just like in every other special artist, was the endless hunger for the truth, and the passion for looking for this truth within himself rather than wandering outside. He realized every human being’s homeland is his childhood, and only in a child’s world there is no wall between reality and illusion. He concentrated on the child in himself, he tried to understand that child, and he tried to define this child, a child being raised very strictly by a father who was a Protestant pastor. Maybe because of this reasons he uttered the words: “I cannot think of any art work that does not explicate the relation between man and God.” He settled his account with everything, never letting go the child in him, never letting go his hand, the child that he owes his dreams: he settled his account with God, death, loneliness, silence, lack of communication, language, illusion, our masks, our personalities, our dehumanization, our passions, our hopes, our sufferings… In brief, with that bottomless cliff named “human”…Bergman was a great director, a great artist, not because he dared to look down in this cliff, but because he had the courage to go deep down, and managed to touch the human soul.
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