Catalogue des films de « Jørgen Leth »

In 1990, Jørgen Leth and Dan Holmberg went on a research trip in preparation for a film adapted from Leth’s novel "Traberg". Renting a boat in Venezuela, they sailed up the Orinoco River, shooting a number of scenes of the boat penetrating...

"Aarhus" is Leth returning to his hometown, with all its adventures and mystique. In a simple, tableau-like style, he leads us through the old neighbourhoods, cutting to himself reminiscing about places and the memories they hold from when he was...

Making his first foray into the world of documentary filmaking, Lars von Trier dispatches veteran documentarian Jørgen Leth on a journey to find new ways of breaking with conventional filmaking forms. "The Perfect Human", Jørgen Leth’s 1968...

In 2001, Jørgen Leth and Dan Holmberg returned to America and brought home a film brimming with the joy of reunion and the same refreshing curiosity and painterly fascination as twenty years before. We revisit "scenes" from the first trip: the...

"Let's face the facts - even Jesus was a street performer", says a young violinist, putting himself through college by busking. Nex York is full of performaers. In the city's streets and plazas, talented individualists provide all manner of...

"Dreamers" introduces Haitian naive painting and its history, comprising conversations with some of Haiti's best knows painters about their background and their thoughts about painting.

Leth's portrait of the poet Søren Ulrik thomsen, who says: "An amazing thing about poetry is that it can think ans sense at the same time. the two ways of relating to the world are separate and often opposites". As in thomsen's poetry, so in...

A documentary from footage Jørgen Leth shot over a period of ten years. "I’m hypnotised by life in Haïti. [...] I get the feeling of personally delving beneath the surface, into chaos", Leth writes. "I’m fascinated by the chaos, its...

Jørgen Leth became fascinated by Katherine Dunham (1909-2006), an African-American anthropologist, dancer and choreographer living in Haïti. Dunham was politically engaged and a powerful personality. Unfortunately, at the time it proved...

In 1993, Michael Laudrup was playing for one of the best clubs in the world FC Barcelona. At the Pinnacle of his career, the Danish footballer talks about his career and elaborates on the game of football and the team that affords him ideal...