Jørgen Leth Movies

Short film about hippie life in Nepal.

Krzysztof Komeda was a jazz pianist and film composer. With compositions like the lullaby for Rosemary's Baby (1968) by Roman Polanski, Komeda...

A documentary about the interaction of skateboarding and public space. Shot in 2006 on 16mm Film and Mini-DV as part of the Fuel TV experiment.

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...

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

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...

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...

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

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...

A short sequence through the tropics.

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...

An experimental sports film made partly during the Scandinavian Open Championships in Halmstad in 1970, partly during the Chinese players' exhibition...

A documentary about the Danish artist John Kørner.

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

A portrayal of a Haitian Rara festival in action.

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.

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...