From her home in Greenwich Village, Manhattan, Copenhagen-born, New York-based Danish-Scottish documentary film producer and director MAIKEN BAIRD talks about her latest film on Palestinian American scholar Edward Said that is entirely archive-based. She revisits her iconic works, such as Client 9 (2010), Venus and Serena (2012), Oscar winner Icarus (2017), and Ghislaine Maxwell: Filthy Rich (2022), and describes the challenges in telling real stories that help us understand our world.
----------
For today's episode, Maiken Baird chose Lauritz Hartz's Landskab med bakker, or Rolling Landscape, from 1927 from the collection of the National Gallery of Denmark.
https://open.smk.dk/en/artwork/image/KMS7062
----------
Photographer: Terry Gruber
----------
This conversation with Asger Hussain occurred on March 26, 2026.
----------
We invite you to subscribe to Danish Originals for weekly episodes. You can also find us at:
Podden och tillhörande omslagsbild på den här sidan tillhör
Various. Innehållet i podden är skapat av Various och inte av,
eller tillsammans med, Poddtoppen.
