Ib Bondebjerg: Virkelighedsbilleder

For our non-Danish readers. This is an announcement of a screening with debate being set up by Danish Cinemateket to introduce the new book of Ib Bondebjerg, Danish documentary academic, about the modern Danish documentary. Bondebjerg talks to Jytte Rex and Anders Østergaard about their portraits of Danish writer Inger Christensen and Swedish jazz composer and pianist Jan Johansson. At Cinemateket on thursday the 29th. The films will be screened. This is the intro text, in Danish, from Jesper Andersen from Cinemateket:  I anledning af udgivelsen af Ib Bondebjergs bog ‘Virkelighedsbilleder. Den moderne danske dokumentarfilm’, inviterer Cinemateket til samtaler mellem Ib Bondebjerg og seks centrale danske dokumentarfilmsinstruktører om dokumentarismen som genre og om instruktørernes kunstneriske strategier, og vi viser seks klassiske portrætfilm.

I det første af tre arrangementer præsenterer vi ’Inger Christensen – cikaderne findes’ (1998) (Photo), instrueret af Jytte Rex og ‘Troldkarlen’ (1999) af Anders Østergaard. Jytte Rex hører til blandt vores poetisk-symbolske dokumentarister, og i hendes portrætter spiller kunstnerens sprog sammen med hendes eget dokumentariske sprog. Det gælder i høj grad for Inger Christensen – cikaderne findes (1998), hvor Rex blander tonen i Christensens lyriske univers med diskrete, men magiske billeder.

Anders Østergaards portrætter er styret af en mental og poetisk tilgang, et forsøg på at anskueliggøre et kunstnerisk univers. Det gør han prægnant i aftenens film ’Troldkarlen’ (1999), der trænger langt ind i Jan Johanssons musikalske univers, samtidig med at det bliver en poetisk blues og en hyldest til en afdød.

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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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