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Ingmar Bergman is the filmmaker who I think has most extensively explored the unique potential of faces to be arranged and composed in interesting ways on screen.

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00:00 Cinema's Untapped Potential?
01:00 The Landscape of The Face
04:21 The Art of Arranging Faces
06:44 Persona: Peak Face?
08:04 Why don't more directors do this?
10:35 but it's not right for every film

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