Jørgen Leth Movies

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

Jørgen Leth can squeeze poetry from a stone and wit from dust, and he can find love where the milk of human kindness runs dry. In a series of...

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

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

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.

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...

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 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...

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...

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...

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

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

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

Various street performers in action.

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...

The Impossible Hour is a concentrated study of Ole Ritter's attempt in Mexico City in 1974 to set a new record for the hour - described in the film...

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,...