Jørgen Leth Movies

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

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

An elegant and humorous film—in the guise of a serious anthropological treatise—spotlights "The Perfect Human," a model of the modern...

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...

The film has been ten years in the making, and over time it has grown to become what the director himself has called an artistic testament. It is...

During a period of 20 years Jørgen Leth portrays Haitian painters and their wonderful native artform. They are dreamers, mystics, fantasts and...

Music for Black Pigeons is the first collaboration between Jørgen Leth and Andreas Koefoed. The film poses existential questions to...

The first short film in Jørgen Leth and Lars von Trier's The Five Obstructions.

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...

A chronology of the 1976 Paris-Roubaix bicycle race from the perspective of participants, organizers and spectators.

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

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...

A short sequence through the tropics.

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...

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...

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.

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,...