Jørgen Vestergaard: At være sig selv

Utrættelige Jørgen Vestergaard har lavet en film om ”Kirsten Kjær og hendes museum” i Langvad ved Frøstrup. Den varer 33 minutter og lader kunstnerens nevø, Harald Fuglsang (billede), fortælle historien om en farverig og kontroversiel personlighed, hvis mange portrætmalerier kan beses på museet, eller rettere kunstcentret, som Fuglsang kalder det sted som han og vennen John Anderson har skabt, hvor der betales entré efter behag og hvor der nu også er et specielt koncerthus at finde.

Filmen giver god besked og viser rundt, og Vestergaard skal have ros for at have sat tre andre film på dvd’en – filmen om Ovartaci fra 1998, portrættet af Jens Søndergaard fra 1995 (hvori salig Flemming Madsen fra vor tv-barndom optræder) og endelig Cementkrucifikset fra 1968 om pastor Anton Laier med stemme og kommentar af vidunderlige Broby-Johansen.

4 film om kunstnere fordelt over 40 år, blot en lille del af Vestergaards omfattende filmografi – se også under ”Hanstholm-historien om en havn”.

Salg og distribution: Forlaget Knakken, 7700 Thisted. E-mail: orpo@thisted-bibliotek.dk  Tlf: 99172843. English subtitles available.

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Tue Steen Müller
Tue Steen Müller

Müller, Tue Steen
Documentary Consultant and Critic, DENMARK

Worked with documentary films for more than 20 years at the Danish Film Board, as press officer, festival representative and film consultant/commissioner. Co-founder of Balticum Film and TV Festival, Filmkontakt Nord, Documentary of the EU and EDN (European Documentary Network).
Awards: 2004 the Danish Roos Prize for his contribution to the Danish and European documentary culture. 2006 an award for promoting Portuguese documentaries. 2014 he received the EDN Award “for an outstanding contribution to the development of the European documentary culture”. 2016 The Cross of the Knight of the Order for Merits to Lithuania. 2019 a Big Stamp at the 15th edition of ZagrebDox. 2021 receipt of the highest state decoration, Order of the Three Stars, Fourth Class, for the significant contribution to the development and promotion of Latvian documentary cinema outside Latvia. In 2022 he received an honorary award at DocsBarcelona’s 25th edition having served as organizer and programmer since the start of the festival.
From 1996 until 2005 he was the first director of EDN (European Documentary Network). From 2006 a freelance consultant and teacher in workshops like Ex Oriente, DocsBarcelona, Archidoc, Documentary Campus, Storydoc, Baltic Sea Forum, Black Sea DocStories, Caucadoc, CinéDOC Tbilisi, Docudays Kiev, Dealing With the Past Sarajevo FF as well as programme consultant for the festivals Magnificent7 in Belgrade, DOCSBarcelona, Verzio Budapest, Message2Man in St. Petersburg and DOKLeipzig. Teaches at the Zelig Documentary School in Bolzano Italy.

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