Jørgen Leth Movies

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...

The mysteries of the balls in Basque Pelota: each ball is a unique creation with which the players have a special relationship.

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

A short sequence through the tropics.

A documentary short about the director's home town of Aarhus, Denmark.

Refilmed scene by scene of the short film "The Perfect Human" (1967), by Jorgen Leth, to resignify from the recognition of diversity and the multiple...

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...

With films like Det perfekte menneske and Det gode og det onde in mind the consistent black and white portrait film Jeg er levende gives the...

During a period of 20 years Jørgen Leth portrays Haitian painters and their wonderful native artform. They are dreamers, mystics, fantasts and...

A portrayal of a Haitian Rara festival in action.

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

Short film about hippie life in Nepal.

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

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: Bali,...

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

Various street performers in action.

Leth's television production of Sanct Hansaften-Spil by the Danish playwright Adam Oehlenshläger is an attempt to take the poetic play at face...

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

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...