Jørgen Leth

The film has been ten years in the making, and over time it has grown to become what the director himself has called an artistic testament. It is ...

With a slow introductory zoom onto Leth in a TV studio and a corresponding zoom out at the end Eddy Merckx in the Vicinity of a Cup of Coffee may ...

In Per Kirkeby’s set with a blue backdrop beside a woodland lake Lene Adler Petersen pronounces Ophelia’s madness monologue from ...

A study of the basic elements of film, first and foremost framing and the relationship between image and sound. The film consists of shots of a ...

“The Five Obstructions”, a 100 min. Dano-Belgian theatre documentary directed by Lars von Trier and Jørgen Leth. An investigative ...

Step on Silence was made from raw material from Peter Martins – en danser but unlike the traditional way the Martins film communicates its ...

Udenrigskorrespondenten was Leth’s first feature but must be regarded as an experiment in fiction rather than an action film in the usual ...

From filmmakers Jørgen Leth and Andreas Koefoed, ‘Music for Black Pigeons’ is a cinematic documentary that explores the lives and ...

Danish documentarian Jørgen Leth revisits the theme and poetic style of his earlier film ’66 Scenes from America’ and finds in the ...

In 1984 Jørgen Leth, cinematographer Dan Holmberg and sound recordist Niels Torp travelled some 6,000 kilometres by train through China. The ...

Almost 100 Danes – including a cyclist, a minister of finances, a popular actress, and 13 single women from province – try to convey ...

As a visual narrative 66 scener fra America is reminiscent of a pile of postcards from a journey, which indeed is what the film is. It consists ...

Release: Aarhus 2005 tt0815091 General: mkv | 189 MB | 00:26:33 Video: 925 Kbps | 720×528 (1.37:1) | 25.000 fps | MPEG-4 Visual Audio 1: ...

An elegant and humorous film-in the guise of a serious anthropological treatise-spotlights “The Perfect Human,” a model of the modern ...

A late 1970s look at Danish ballet star Peter Martins’s art and an assessment of what makes him unique and highly lauded on the ...

A personal essay on the play of children and grown-ups all over the world. The director has shot the film in different countries and cultures: ...

Jørgen Leth can squeeze poetry from a stone and wit from dust, and he can find love where the milk of human kindness runs dry. In a series of ...

Haiti. Uden title is a kaleidoscopic, dramatic documentary from this chaotic Caribbean country and comprises a mixture of material on video, 16 ...

Poet-filmmaker Jørgen Leth taps his own earliest inspirational veins by free-floating through a camera/microscope-enhanced set of poems with love ...