Arts+CultureCult VaultCult Vault #39: Antonio Campos on The RiteAntonio Campos reveals why Swedish director Ingmar Bergman's 1969 film changed his lifeShareLink copied ✔️July 17, 2013Arts+CultureCult VaultTextCarmen Gray Taken from the July 2013 issue of Dazed & Confused: New York director Antonio Campos’s stylishly menacing latest, Simon Killer, will screen at the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival in the Czech Republic this month as part of a complete retrospective of the work of hot indie production collective Borderline Films, which he runs with Sean Durkin and Josh Mond. For Cult Vault, he picks Swedish maestro Ingmar Bergman’s lesser-known The Rite (1969): “I saw The Rite in a Bergman doublebill in New York almost ten years ago. It changed my life. It doesn’t have the dreamlike, poetic quality or elegance associated with his filmmaking, but it’s simple, raw and direct. Bergman imbues a sensuality that makes everything alive. The power play between the four characters unravels beautifully. The final set-piece – a masked pornographic show performed for a censor in an unnamed country – remains shocking even now. The film will convince you that Ingrid Thulin was the most underrated (and sexiest) of all Bergman’s actors.” Expand your creative community and connect with 15,000 creatives from around the world.READ MOREWhy did Satan start to possess girls on screen in the 70s?Learn the art of photo storytelling and zine making at Dazed+Labs8 essential skate videos from the 90s and beyond with Glue SkateboardsThe unashamedly queer, feminist, and intersectional play you need to seeParis artists are pissed off with this ‘gift’ from Jeff KoonsA Seat at the TableVinca Petersen: Future FantasySnarkitecture’s guide on how to collide art and architectureBanksy has unveiled a new anti-weapon artworkVincent Gallo: mad, bad, and dangerous to knowGet lost in these frank stories of love and lossPreview a new graphic novel about Frida Kahlo