Jørgen Leth Movies

In 1967, experimental filmmaker Jorgen Leth created a striking short film, The Perfect Human, starring a man and women sitting in a box while a...

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

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

Music for Black Pigeons is the first collaboration between Jørgen Leth and Andreas Koefoed. The film poses existential questions to...

A chronology of the 1976 Paris-Roubaix bicycle race from the perspective of participants, organizers and spectators.

Documentary about filmmaker and film lover Stig Björkman during the pandemic year of 2020 when he stay in touch with his friends over his laptop.

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...

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 international stage...

What are the consequences of a young person to be famous at an early age, being a public person? "Født til Filmen" is about the Danish...

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

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

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 lengthy...

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 be...

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

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...

A documentary about the Danish artist John Kørner.

A portrayal of a Haitian Rara festival in action.