Erik Knudsen Libri

Erik Knudsen, a notable Danish author, made significant contributions to literature with seventeen poetry collections and numerous works for radio, TV, and theater. Balancing his career as a teacher with roles as a literary editor and translator, he was deeply committed to peace activism, founding organizations against the Vietnam War and military interventions in South America. His dedication to the peace movement extended to active lecturing and participation in demonstrations, highlighting his influence both in literature and social advocacy.

This book philosophically and creatively examines ways in which independent filmmakers may explore, through practice, the discovery and development of a personal voice in the making of their films. Filmmaker and academic, Professor Erik Knudsen, uses a combination of autoethnographic experience derived from his own filmmaking practice and new insights gained from a series of ethnomediaological StoryLab workshops with independent filmmakers in Malaysia, Ghana and Colombia to drive this innovative examination. The book contextualises this practice exploration within an eclectic psychological and philosophical framework that ranges from Jungian psychological theories of the collective unconscious to Sheldrakian scientific theories of morphic resonance, from Christian mystical ideas about creative motivation to structuralist theories that underpin our linguistic understanding of story and narrative. Why should we create? What is a creative act? This in-depth study tackles these questions by examining the early ideation stages of cinematic expression and ultimately seeks to understand the practical ways in which ideas are shaped into stories and narratives.