He has a background as newspaper and magazine editor – for 30 years. He is the editor of our ‘cinepolitical’ documentary magazine Modern Times Review (since 2017).
From 2015-2027 he has been editor/publisher of NY TID (modern times), a Norwegian quarterly non-fiction printed book magazine.
HISTORY: Previous publisher and editor-in-chief of Morgenbladet in Oslo (1993–2003) and Le Monde diplomatique (2003-2013). He was also previously editor of the magazine DOX at EDN for 4 years. Here an old selection will be available in some time (Norwegian/English)…
Latest articles in Modern Times Review:
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SHEFFIELD 2012: Self Shooters
What impressions of the documentary industry can 100 seminars in one week at the festival DOC/FEST give?
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EYAL SIVAN: A common state solution
The Israeli filmmaker, Eyal Sivan, prefers to make films about perpetrators, rather than victims. In his most recent film, Common State, he advocates a one-state solution for Israel. DOX met him in Thessaloniki.
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SHorter!
In this issue of DOX we have two feature articles on short docs (pages 8-12), and a bundled DVD with seven shorts
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– We need a new Oslo Agreement
PALESTINE: Eyal Sivan prefers to make films about the oppressor rather than the status quo. With his latest film, Common State
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EYAL SIVAN: We Need a New Oslo Agreement
Eyal Sivan prefers to make documentaries about the perpetrator rather than the victim. His latest film, Common State, advocates a one-state solution in Israel. Truls Lie met Sivan in Tessaloniki.
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JAY ROSENBLATT: The human condition – a sense of loss
Why is the Jewish filmmaker Jay Rosenblatt from San Francisco so obsessed with loss and death in his films? His many films are like collage essays, usually comprising archive material. As a filmmaker, has he been ahead of his time? And as programming director of a Jewish festival, how does he cope with Jewish history?
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BERLIN 2011: What matters in Berlin
Cinema for Peace addressed the unbearable heaviness of being. Also over the course of the Berlinale festival, the ambivalence towards social issues was explicit, as DOX’s Truls Lie experienced himself.
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Dimitri Eipides: When ethics is a must
FAREWELL: The Thessaloniki International Film Festival and its people bid farewell to Dimitri Eipides. We republish our interview in honour of his life works – from when he received the 2011 EDN award 2011. In this interview, Truls Lie speaks with Eipides about movies that matter, action, sabotage and ethics.
Some favourite essays:
The Specific Intellectual
In memory of Marker
POV: The War of the spirit
THOUGHT MADE VISIBLE: The movie auteurs
