Yoshiro Nakamatsu, Japanese inventor extraordinaire, is almost 80, but he plans to live until he is 144. In his native country, he is an offbeat cultural phenomenon, complete with his own fan club. He holds 3,357 patents (compare that to Thomas Edison’s 1,093!), and was instrumental in the development of the floppy disc. He trusts his sense of smell to identify a good camera, and his best ideas come to him underwater, so he spends lots of time at the bottom of the pool. He realizes his ways are unconventional, but he is keenly committed to maintaining his image as a dignified inventor and shrewd businessman, custom suits included. Filmmaker Kaspar Astrup Schröder interweaves Nakamatsu’s often revealing, and rarely modest, reflections on his own inventive genius with entertaining, occasionally hilarious examples of his unlikely inventions and antics. The result is a fun-loving exploration of the human capacity for creativity and invention.
In his film company dokumentar.no Lie has since 2008 been working as a film director, cinematographer and producer for documentaries. He works with the new Canon EOS 5D/7D with HD film, and edits in Apple's Final cut.
With Haiti mon Amour (Kjære Haiti, hva nå?) Lie went to Port-au-Prince after the earthqake with Ole Paus and others. We followed the money collected by the norwegian consert Dugnad for Haiti and NRK, and then given to Red Cross, Church Aid and UNICEF. It is edited as a low budget film essay, an montage of images. (se video below)
He has since 2007 worked on a documentary portrait – The Seduced Human – Jørgten Leth and Haiti on the danish renowned filmmaker Jørgen Leth (2011). This one-hour documentary is financed so far by the Norwegian Film Institute with 720 000 kroner – and will be released in 2011. (se video below)
Lie is also editor-in-chief for DOX, the leading European quarterly magazine for documentary films, published by the European Documentary Network. See PDFs of the last magaines below.
Lie has been the editor-in-chief and publisher for Morgenbladet between 1993-2003, and has been editor-in-chief/publisher of the Nordic edition of the monthly newspaper Le Monde diplomatique between 2003-08, where he now is still the publisher and regulary film critic.
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