Asger Jorn

Portrait about the legendary abstract painter Asger Jorn told by painter and poet Per Kirkeby.

This film portrait of Asger Jorn is based on interviews with artists and friends with whom he was in a close relationship during the years 1937-1973. They were recorded in 1987-89, a time when their memories of Jorn were still vivid.

This short film can be considered as notes on the origins of the situationist movement; notes which thus naturally include a reflection on their own language.