Adam Paaske

Adam Paaske works as a documentary filmmaker, a journalist at the Danish newspaper Politiken, and as an external curator at The Danish Cinematheque. He has studied anthropology at The University of Copenhagen. His first documentary film, The Art of Shattering Eternity (2019), is an intimate portrait of the internationally acclaimed Danish writer Carsten Jensen. The ethnographic comedy Leisure Time - A Summer’s Day, Adam Paaske’s second as a director, had World Premiere at CPH:DOX, International Premiere at Visions du Réel and was selected at numerous other international festivals around the world. At the moment, he is working on his first feature documentary, Colonial Tour, which explores the global phenomena of colonial nostalgia and nationalism in a postcolonial world.