I was introduced to Bergman as a freshman in college and have spent all the years since wondering how this guy managed to light Liv Ullmann to create the impression that a soft light was coming from inside her head. When I read aphasia, I cant help but remember Baudelaire, mind still active in a body that would not move, ears probably working but with no voice. I imagine another film. It is set in a nursing home. It is beautiful and sad and seems haunted by the absence of the protagonist. We are seeing through his eyes and what we are seeing on the screen creates the absence of a voice. The images mean more to us than we can explain and this more than we can explain is the space haunted by that lost voice. We see but cannot say. We see but cannot say. TMike
--- Halvard Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > RIP > > http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/21/movies/21nykvist.html? > > ex=1316491200&en=0b62693ac5ef94da&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss > > > "Colorless green ideas sleep furiously." > --Noam Chomsky > > Halvard Johnson > ================ > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://home.earthlink.net/~halvard > http://entropyandme.blogspot.com > http://imageswithoutwords.blogspot.com > http://www.hamiltonstone.org > > In so far as literature turns back on itself and examines parodies or treats ironically its own signifying procedures, it becomes the most complex account of signification we possess. John Deely __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
