Bleak Cinema celebrates its one-year anniversary with Ingmar Bergman’s HOUR OF THE WOLF!

Over the course of one long day, one long night, and the nightmares betwixt, an artist must come to terms with his own dormant depravity. Bergman’s tapestry, shot by longtime collaborator Sven Nykvist, combines graceful landscape photography with surrealist aberrations. This visual eccentricity expresses the film’s many dichotomies: Day and night, light and dark, lust and digust, death and near-death.

Much of Bergman’s career is defined by an impetuous questioning of the will of God, a extrinsic disbelief toward the apathy of the heavens. In Hour of the Wolf, disbelief bends inward to the Devil, that unquelled calamnity lying within all of us. The hour of the wolf—the last hours of night, during which the most births and deaths occur—operates as an atemporal penumbra under we are all shameful, bloodthirsty beasts.

Presented by Bleak Cinema