Erik Clausen

Erik Clausen was born in Copenhagen on 7 March 1942 and grew up in the working-class district of Sydhavnen, raised with his brother by a single mother after their father left during the Occupation. A house painter by trade and an easel painter on the side, he founded in 1969, with Leif Sylvester Petersen, a street circus that brought art and political satire into public space, then moved into cinema as a self-taught filmmaker in 1981. He received an honorary Bodil in 2023 and died on 30 October 2024.

In the catalogue 1

• CinemaFish Out of WaterDe frigjorteErik Clausen · 1993Cinema