Jørgen Leth Movies

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...

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

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

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...

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

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

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

Anthology of six experimental films. 1) Allan de Waal: Investigation of an abandoned hippie house. 2) Bjørn Nørgaard and Lene Adler...

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

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

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

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

Portraying Ayub Kalule, the boxer from Uganda who was "the most famous immigrant in Denmark" in the late 1970s.

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...

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...

A short sequence through the tropics.

A portrayal of a Haitian Rara festival in action.