Lene Adler Petersen
Acting
Biography
Lene Adler Petersen is a Danish experimental visual artist and performer. She was born into a working-class family in the city of Aarhus. After training at the Jutland Art Academy, Aarhus (1964-1966) and Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, Copenhagen (1968-1969), she started working in various media that spanned poetry, collage, drawing, painting, ceramics, happenings and film. Her work is characterised by a poetic and strategic elaboration of issues that deal with feminism, human rights and anti-capitalism.
Known For
Artist group ABCinema's footage from Rødovrecentret, Denmark's first large shopping center in Rødovre, a suburb of Copenhagen. A collage of super 8 footage, shot with multiple cameras. (DFI)
Rødovrefilmen
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Diary Films I - V
Jørgen Leth's experimental take on Ophelia's madness scene in Shakespeare's Hamlet.
Ophelia's Flowers
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The Girl with the Green Dress (The Female Christ I)
Performing in the work The Female Christ, Lene Adler Petersen walks – entirely unannounced – through the building’s vast hall while carrying a cross. The artists introduce a new, vibrant image depicting one of our grand narratives and carry out a startling intervention within the pulsating business world. The resulting clash has become an iconic modern-day image. The footage created for this work should also be viewed within the context of the film community ABCinema, which worked with e.g. collectively produced film and collective film screenings where several films were screened simultaneously. (National Gallery of Denmark)
The Expulsion from the Temple/Female Christ
Broadcast to a large portion of the Danish population in January 1970, Hesteofringen ('Horse Sacrifice') was the ostensible ritual slaughtering and dismemberment of a horse in protest of the ongoing war in Vietnam (the horse was actually very old and put down humanely by a vet).
The Horse Sacrifice
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The Lord of the Flies
Three women are isolated in a bedroom. A little pig is first loved as a pet, but is later castrated. Symbolizing the wretched man. Out in the dark, a dangerous man, Dracula, is a constant threat.
Three Girls and a Pig
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Mao-film
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