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Jean-Luc Godard: “I read something by Borges where he spoke of a man who wanted to create a world. So he created houses, provinces, valleys, rivers, tools, fish, lovers, and then at the end of his life he notices that this ‘patient labyrinth is none other than his own portrait.’”

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Samuel Beckett & Alan Schneider - Film (1965)

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Hold Back the Dawn (Mitchell Leisen, 1941).

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You know what I thought when I saw your film that night? When I came home I saw myself in the mirror and thought: we’re alike.

Persona (1966) dir. Ingmar Bergman

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“Have they forgotten what a star looks like?!” Gloria Swanson and William Holden in Billy Wilder’s Sunset Blvd. 1950

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Cold War (Polish: Zimna wojna), 2018, directed by Paweł Pawlikowski

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• The Seventh Seal / (1957)

Dir. Ingmar Bergman

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Double Indemnity (1944)

Dir. Billy Wilder

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“The film medium is some sort of magic. I think also it’s a magic that every frame comes and stands still for a fraction of a second and then it darkens. A half part of the time when you see a picture, you sit in complete darkness. Isn’t that fascinating?. That is magic”. – Ingmar Bergman

• Burned film sequence from ‘Persona’ (1966).