Catalogue des films de « Ole John »

"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...

Landscapes, cities, people, motels, diners, highways... A cactus, a refrigerator, the flag, the Stars and Stripes... A bartender skilfully mixes a Dry Martini, a Bloody Mary and then a Whiskey Sour... New York cab drivers, a pair of lawyers, a...

Members ofthe ABCinema collective travel to Randbol Heath in Jutland to shoot a film that comes to consist of a series of tableaux: Woman kneeling in a hollow ndresses. Man on seashore throws Molotov cocktail. Man in cornfield "plays" a violin....

"Motion Picture" is not a sports film in the traditional sense, more like a meditation on movement, ecstasy and film with tennis freak, Torben Ulrich. Ulrich exemplifies a loner seeking to elevate a trivial instant into a higher moment. The same...

"An attractive young couple serve as objects of demonstration. We will see how a human comes into being as an effect of the roles he or she is assigned. We will see how a human gets better at living. It all takes place in a brightly lit...

Autumn 1967. Jørgen Leth and Ole John left for Nepal to film hippies who had settled down on a piece of land and proclaimed it a free State. The hippies plod around like marionettes in a fantastic setting of Buddhist temples and local populace....

In this small film, shot in Estepona in the south of Spain, Jørgen Leth and Ole John pursure the principle of asynchronisation and the juxtaposition of disparate elements. The images are footage from a barbershop, a talking man's face and black...

"Stop for Bud" is Jørgen Leth’s first film and the first in his long collaboration with Ole John. Together they wanted to "invent cinematic language from scratch". "The jazz pianist Bud Powell moves around Copenhagen. He enters and leaves the...