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:
Some favourite essays:
The Specific Intellectual
Is the role of intellectuals sometimes taken over by reflected filmmakers – and those old…
In memory of Marker
The exhibition A Grin without a Cat currently displayed at Kunstnernes Hus in Oslo bears a…
POV: The War of the spirit
PASOLINI: Pier Paolo Pasolini was an ardent critic of his age. A recently reconstructed…
THOUGHT MADE VISIBLE: The movie auteurs
The late Ingmar Bergman and Michelangelo Antonioni wanted to do something very new with cinema:to…
A loveless technology
MODERN TECHNOLOGY: Our digital civilisation is more dependent than ever on artificial and technological stimuli.