Chamber play in red
A film by director Lena Nilsson starring Charlotta Åkerblom. 2018.
The inspiration for making this five-minute short film is three pictures, as well as my ambivalence towards Bergman’s art and the view of women that permeates it. Two pictures are from Whispers and Shouts. The maid sitting with the cancerous woman in the bed. The maid has hurried down her coffin and exposed one of her breasts. The second picture is the woman who has just cut herself in the abdomen with a shard of glass and smeared blood around her mouth in front of her husband. The third picture is the actress Charlotta Åkerblom who pretends to be Liv Ullman.