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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LODZ 2010: Reality’s replicas
The Cinematography festival Camerimage in Poland in december is virtually the only one of its kind among the 370 lm festivals held worldwide. Both the festival and the town made a real impression. But where on Earth does our incurable urge to bear witness to a never-ending succession of images come from?
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OPEN SOURCE FILMMAKING: The remix culture
At a seminar at the Nordic Panorama Film Festival in Reykjavik last autumn I learned that current media developments are threatening the survival of copyright. Is this good or bad news for documentary filmmakers?
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BERLINALE 2010: Gender apartheid
At the Berlinale the documentary “Black Bus” is one Israeli powerful testimony on the repressive nature of Israel.
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Moore or less
This is the film about the rich and greedy in a united states of profit. Michael Moore himself fills nearly every screen as the people’s inquisitor.
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Once a democratic country
DOX met the Iranian artist and now filmmaker, Shirin Neshat, who won the prize for best director at the Venice Film Festival. Her feature film Women Without Men combines both the oppression of women in Iran and the historical moment when Iran turned away from being a democracy in 1953. These insights are still alarmingly…
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Testimonies from Venice
Venice: The 66th Venice Film Festival was characterised by personal accounts of political events, but also by films that explore the political and moral commitment to a life of dignity, according to Truls Lie of *Le Monde diplomatique*, who was present at the Lido.
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‘Anarchy is important in art’
Alan Parker: The British director Alan Parker is one of the most versatile filmmakers of our time. Truls Lie of *Le Monde diplomatique* met the filmmaker for a conversation about the political potential of cinema.
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A Young Harsh Reality
Can documentaries benefit from the film techniques used in fiction films? David Kinsella’s “Killing Girls” is exemplary.
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Haiti mon amour
Haiti: Earlier this year, Truls Lie travelled to Haiti to make a documentary about the Danish poet and filmmaker Jørgen Leth. Read the account of his journey and the country.
Some favourite essays:
The Specific Intellectual
In memory of Marker
POV: The War of the spirit
THOUGHT MADE VISIBLE: The movie auteurs
