On this Day in History: Legendary filmmaker Ingmar Bergman ..
Added 2024-07-30 18:01:13 +0000 UTCOn this Day in History:
Legendary filmmaker Ingmar Bergman was embraced by ☠ in 2007 at 89 years old. Hailing from Sweden, his esoteric films garnered attention internationally for the way they blended a classic movie feel with modern techniques while exploring a wide range of emotional themes across the human condition.
One of his most famous works, from 1957, was The Seventh Seal, which features a knight engaged in a chess game with Death himself, all while navigating his duties to his people as a plague rages on. Making moves as he chats with the supernatural entity in brief breaks from his journey where he encounters a traveling acting troupe, the knight, accompanied by his squire, must make life-or-death decisions at every turn, though often not regarding his own.
As a tribute to this filmmaker that I’m only beginning to get to know, I embodied his rendition of Death, chess game and all, with a titillating twist.
