Bergmans Banaliteter

2024
31/100
21.2 x 29.7 x 1.4 cm
Risograph printed inlay, hot-foiled cover, bound with archival fastener in hardened steel. Unbound insert masde with a fineliner and a robotic drawing machine. Held in hot-foiled cardboard box closed with unbleached cotton string.

1948 saw the publication of Ingmar Bergman´s ´Moraliteter (Moralities, Bonniers) and in 2024 Bergman´s ´Moraliteter (Bergman´s Banlities, Farozonen) presented by A-FL, was released. The Swedish director was widely considered one of the greatest and most influential filmakers of all time. Despite significant international success, Ingmar Bergman´s self-image was characterized by a sence of being misunderstood. The director, who claimedto have been rejected from birth, may have been his own harshest critic.
In Berman´s Banaliteter by A-FL, a heavily annotated original manuscript for a series of previosly unpublished interviews, conducted by the critic and Bergman connoisseur Henrik Sjögren (1926-2020 during the authumn of 2001, is being processed. The text is completely omitted, and all that remains Bergman´s extensive deletions; freneticlines dancing across the pages in red and green ink. Taken out of context, these resolute strokes transform into abstract formations that manifest Bergman´s relentless self-censorship. On the 32nd page of the original manuscript, the director writes in a desperate note: "I feel like I´m practically always stating banalities about my productions. It´s too miserable, Henrik!"