Biography
Born in Denmark in 1959. Writer and filmmaker. Lives and works in Copenhagen. Has written books and made documentary films on a variety of subjects, most of them related to avantgarde art, film, video, and literature. A number of his projects in more recent years has been dealing with the American
±Beat Generation. In 2008 he published Beat - på sporet af den amerikanske beatgeneration (a 670 page book on the Beat Generation). Altogether he has written and/or edited more than fifteen books, a number of them on video art. He has also been working as a free lance writer and critic since the early 1980s and has published more than 1.000 articles in a number of Danish magazines and newspapers. From 1986 to 1992 he was the co-director of the multi-art festival Lyrik & Billeder (Poetry & Images) in Odense, Denmark. In 1996 he curated the exhibition Electronic Undercurrents - Art & Video in Europe at the National Gallery in Copenhagen (with Torben Christensen). In 1999 he curated the exhibition Close-Ups: Contemporary Art and Carl Th. Dreyer at Nikolaj Contemporary Art Center in Copenhagen (with Lene Crone).
Videography
2007 Words of Advice - William S. Burroughs on the Road, Denmark
2006 Hae-Jin, Denmark, 59 min.
2006 I Don't Even Have a Boat - Calling the Captain, Denmark, 16 min.
2002 Angkor Wat - a poem by Allen Ginsberg, Denmark, 18 min.
±2001 Something Wonderful May Happen - New York School of Poets and Beyond, Denmark, 57 min.
2001 Connections: Ray Johnson On-Line, Denmark, 41 min.
2000 Price of Gas, Denmark, 28 min.
1998 Lowell Celebrates Kerouac, Denmark, 35 min.
1993 The Misfits - 30 Years of Fluxus, Denmark, 79 min.
1989 David Moss - Take Me Away, Denmark, 30 min.
Various
Awards and Distinctions
1994 Prix TV Picture - Regione Lombardia, EuroVideoFest, Lisbonne, Portugal
1994 Best Video, Danish Film Festival, Odense, Denmark
1994 Prix D.R.A.C. Auvergne, VidéoFormes, Clermont-Ferrand, France
1993 Special Prize of the Jury, Retina, Szigetvár, Hungary