Jens Jørgen Thorsen (2 February 1932 Holstebro – 15 November 2000) was a Danish artist, director, and jazz musician whose works sometimes created controversy.
Thorsen also wrote, directed, and starred in a number of films, the most notable of them being Quiet Days in Clichy (Stille dage i Clichy,1970), based on the Henry Miller novel.
In painting, Thorsen painted a number of abstract works, which have become increasingly collectible. He also stirred up controversy with a work depicting Jesus in a manner some considered pornographic. Thorsen planned a film called The Many Faces of Jesus, later The Sex Life of Jesus, and was to have involved both heterosexual and homosexual acts. The film plans met with strong national and international protests and accusations of blasphemy resulting in the Danish Film Academy withdrawing its financial support. The film was to have been made in Britain, but it faced intense opposition from Christian morality campaigner Mary Whitehouse, pressure groups, as well as from the Queen,[2] then Prime Minister James Callaghan, the Archbishop of Canterbury Donald Coggan,[3] and Pope Paul VI, who called the film "an insult ... which transforms Christ into sacrilegious bait for filthy falseness".[4]The Return of Jesus (1992) (a completely different project) was made after the ban on the original project was rescinded in 1990.[5][6] The controversy, and particularly Thorsen's reported interest in producing the film in the United States, led to a decades-long hoax that the release of such a film was imminent.[7]
Thorsen was also a jazz musician and co-founder of the group Papa Bue's Viking Jazzband.
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^[1] Jakob Jakobsen & Mikkel Bolt : Expect Anything Fear Nothing: The Situationist Movement in Scandinavia and Elsewhere
^, The New York Times from the All-Movie Guide, 2010
^Mette Hjort, Eva Jørholt, Eva Novrup Redvall (eds.) The Danish Directors 2, Bristol: UK & Chicago: Intellect, The Mill & Intellect, The University of Chicago Press, 2010, p.107, n.1
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