📍Hammars, Fårö, Gotland, Sweden
1967 – 2007“I first came to Fårö on a stormy April day in 1960. Svensk Filmindustri had suggested the island at the northern tip of Gotland as a location for Through a Glass Darkly, and I went reluctantly. The bare limestone shore, the twisted pines, the wind and the enormous sky overwhelmed me. In my memoir I wrote that I had found my landscape and my real home; if I wanted to be lighter about it, I called it love at first sight. I had felt rootless since my childhood in a strict parsonage household, and here, for the first time, I felt at home in the world. When I came back to make Persona in 1965, I decided to find a place of my own, and in 1967 I moved into Hammars, a long, low house built close to the ground among the pines, near the stony beach. It grew over the years, and it was here that I wrote and prepared most of my later films and stage productions. At nearby Dämba a barn was turned into a small cinema, where I watched films almost every day. The islanders gave me privacy, and I gave the island my attention: I made documentaries about Fårö and its people, and the farms, the sheep, the weather and the silences found their way into my work. Shame, The Passion of Anna and Scenes from a Marriage were shaped by this place. My wife Ingrid and I rest together in the churchyard of Fårö church, and the houses now host artists and writers who come to work in the same quiet.”
🗺️ Approximate location today
📍 Street view today