About Speaker

Michael Madsen is the Director of the multiple award-winning film Into Eternity. Other films include Halden Prison, 3D / Cathedrals of Culture, initiated by Wim Wenders. The hybrid THE VISIT premiered in competition at the Sundance Film Festival. Michael has lectured at the Danish Film School, University of California, and the School of Architecture in London. His workshops have included the ”Workshop for Individuals with Absolutely No Idea for a Film”. His transmedia project The Search took part in the Moon Exhibition at the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art. He is the initiator of a UNESCO-aimed World Heritage project that radically addresses the future by considering the fundamental question looming over the world’s political shifts and climate change: "What if we were to start anew?"