Lars Movin
Born in Denmark in 1959. Writer and filmmaker. Lives and works in Copenhagen. Has written books and made documentary films on a variety of subjects, most of them related to avantgarde art, film, video, and literature. A number of his projects in more recent years has been dealing with the American Beat Generation. In 2008 he published Beat - på sporet af den amerikanske beatgeneration (a 670 page book on the Beat Generation). Altogether he has written and/or edited more than fifteen books, a number of them on video art. He has also been working as a free lance writer and critic since the early 1980s and has published more than 1.000 articles in a number of Danish magazines and newspapers. From 1986 to 1992 he was the co-director of the multi-art festival Lyrik & Billeder (Poetry & Images) in Odense, Denmark. In 1996 he curated the exhibition Electronic Undercurrents - Art & Video in Europe at the National Gallery in Copenhagen (with Torben Christensen). In 1999 he curated the exhibition Close-Ups : Contemporary Art and Carl Th. Dreyer at Nikolaj Contemporary Art Center in Copenhagen (with Lene Crone).