Bergman as a master of expression : interview with Jan Holmberg

Abstract

Jan Holmberg (jan.holmberg@ingmarbergman.se) is a film scholar and since 2010 the CEO of the Ingmar Bergman Foundation (Stiftelsen Ingmar Bergman), which administers, preserves and distributes information on Ingmar Bergman and his work. Jan Holm berg was the head of programming in the Swedish Cinematheque between 2002 and 2004. He is an author of number of studies published in books devoted to the Swedish film, i.e. ‘Censorship in Sweden’ in Swedish Film: An Introduction and Reader (edited by Mariah Larsson and Anders Marklund, Nordic Academic Press, 2010) or ‘Closing in: Telescopes, Early Cinema and the Technological Conditions of De-distancing’ in Moving Images. From Edison to the Webcam (edited by John Fullerton and Astrid Söderbergh Widding, John Libbey Publishing, 2016). In 2018, he published a book Författaren Ingmar Bergman (Ingmar Bergman, The Writer) where he explores the writing of Ingmar Bergman as a primary form of his expression. In 2017, Jan Holmberg held lectures devoted to the history of Swedish film at The Film School in Uherské Hradiště. In 2018, he presented Bergman as a writer and a theatre director at The Theatre Week in Prague. The following interview was carried out as an e-mail conversation in September 2018.