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 ...

Lars von Trier challenges his mentor, filmmaker Jørgen Leth, to remake Leth’s 1967 short film The Perfect Human five times, each with a different ...

A look at post-9/11 America by the Danish documentarian.

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

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 ...

Writer and cineast Jørgen Leth is the fascinated observer of a country where reality often seems surreal and resembles fiction. Haïti’s history ...

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

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

Jørgen Leth’s personal, pleasurable distillation of Danish literature covers seven poets alive at the time of production and twenty ...

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

An insight into the work by composer and pianist Herman D. Koppel with the American Cantilena Quartet before the first performance of his piano ...

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: ...

A documentary view of the Basque ball-game in which a small hard leather ball is hit against a wall. The film gives an impression of the game ...

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

As a visual narrative it is reminiscent of a pile of postcards from a journey, which indeed is what the film is. It consists of a series of ...

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