A Genealogy

I felt a real connection to the comparison of Sleeping Muse and Duchamp's Fountain. I just watched Persona by Ingmar Bergman this weekend and was so refreshed by the honesty in which they discussed abortion and motherhood in 1966. Meanwhile Jacques Demy was making musicals that resisted form and were full of color, Kubrick was making incredible flying space babies in 2001: A Space Odyssey and Agnes Varda was making a documentary about Black Panthers that didn't narrate, but rather let the people of the Free Huey rally speak for themselves. It just blew my mind that in such a rich discussion of codependency and openness between women was happening in Sweden while the rest of the world reeled with different subjects and forms. It feels like it's from another dimension or a time undefined. They all are from the same span of couple of years, but feel like they were born in different worlds from each other. Obviously current films draw inspiration from Bergman, Kubrick, Varda and Demy and so I can find links like Stonehenge to Roden Crater. For example, Bergman's Persona deals with women loving each other and becoming one woman, as does its successors Robert Altman's 3 Women and David Lynch's Mulholland Drive. Each details different perspectives of women's behavior with each other, devoid of men and how birth and sex affect their lives.