Jørgen Leth Movies

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

A portrayal of a Haitian Rara festival in action.

When the media storm flared up in the wake of Jørgen Leth's memoir "The Imperfect Man" in 2005, it was mainly due to the passage about Leth's...

Portraying the four seasons of the nature in the famous Danish garden Dyrehaven.

Klaus Rifbjerg is a portrait that has the author talking about his work in a series of tableaux.

The film, which can be seen as a preliminary study for Motion Picture, is 16 mm black / white footage of Torben Ulrich during exercise in HIKs tennis...

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

Not surprisingly, Jørgen Leth became fascinated by Katherine Dunham (1909-2006), an African-American anthropologist, dancer and choreographer...

Various street performers in action.

Jørgen Leth's experimental take on Ophelia's madness scene in Shakespeare's Hamlet.

The film may be viewed as a study of the nature of the medium and more specifically of the phenomena of framing, movement, and synchronicity of sound...

Traberg, like Udenrigskorrespondenten, is an experiment in fiction consisting of placing a character or a fictional sketch into a set of surroundings...

A documentary and series of interviews about the ABCinema movement/production group.

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...

A stil-life of marvellous Danish footballer Michael Laudrups performance on the Barcelona dreamteam 1989-94.

Short film about hippie life in Nepal.

A documentary about the Danish artist John Kørner.

At danse Bournonville is a portrait of the Bournonville tradition at the Royal Danish ballet that has survived for 150 years on the basis of a few...