Jørgen Leth Movies
- 2003
New Scenes from America
New Scenes from America62003HD
A look at post-9/11 America by the Danish documentarian.
- 2005
Aarhus
Aarhus5.22005HD
A documentary short about the director's home town of Aarhus, Denmark.
- 1982
Andy Warhol Eating a Hamburger
Andy Warhol Eating a Hamburger01982HD
- 1974
Stars and the Water Carriers
Stars and the Water Carriers6.51974HD
The images from the Tour de France in the television production Eddy Merckx in the Vincinity of a Cup of Coffee may be seen as a small sketch for the...
- 1989
Danish Literature
Danish Literature4.31989HD
Jørgen Leth's personal, pleasurable distillation of Danish literature covers seven poets alive at the time of production and twenty classical...
- 2020
I Walk
I Walk8.92020HD
Documentary about Danish filmmaker, sports journalist and poet Jørgen Leth who struggles after surviving a major earthquake in Haiti.
- 1987
Notebook from China
Notebook from China81987HD
In 1984 Jørgen Leth, cinematographer Dan Holmberg and sound recordist Niels Torp travelled some 6,000 kilometres by train through China. The...
- 1969
Krag-filmen
Krag-filmen01969HD
The ABCinema group dispatched Jørgen Leth to make the arrangements with Prime Minister Jens Otto Krag, who good-naturedly put himself at their...
- 1986
Moments of Play
Moments of Play81986HD
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,...
- 2023
Music for Black Pigeons
Music for Black Pigeons6.82023HD
Music for Black Pigeons is the first collaboration between Jørgen Leth and Andreas Koefoed. The film poses existential questions to...
- 1981
Step on Silence
Step on Silence61981HD
Step on Silence was made from raw material from Peter Martins - en danser but unlike the traditional way the Martins film communicates its material...
- 2006
Freedom of Space: Skateboard Culture and the Public Space
Freedom of Space: Skateboard Culture and the Public Space02006HD
A documentary about the interaction of skateboarding and public space. Shot in 2006 on 16mm Film and Mini-DV as part of the Fuel TV experiment.
- 2002
Dreamers
Dreamers72002HD
During a period of 20 years Jørgen Leth portrays Haitian painters and their wonderful native artform. They are dreamers, mystics, fantasts and...
- 2018
The Perfect Human
The Perfect Human02018HD
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...
- 1987
Composer Meets Quartet
Composer Meets Quartet4.51987HD
An insight into the work by composer and pianist Herman D. Koppel with the American Cantilena Quartet before the first performance of his piano...
- 2017
Pelota II
Pelota II02017HD
- 2020
Gifts of Chance – a film about Jørgen Leth
Gifts of Chance – a film about Jørgen Leth02020HD
Jørgen Leth looks back at more than 50 years as a filmmaker in a cheerful film, whose contagious enthusiasm initiates us in his special poetry.
- 1979
Kalule
Kalule41979HD
Portraying Ayub Kalule, the boxer from Uganda who was "the most famous immigrant in Denmark" in the late 1970s.
- 1969
Rødovrefilmen
Rødovrefilmen01969HD
Artist group ABCinema's footage from Rødovrecentret, Denmark's first large shopping center in Rødovre, a suburb of Copenhagen. A...
- 1979
A Midsummer Night's Play
A Midsummer Night's Play51979HD
Leth's television production of Sanct Hansaften-Spil by the Danish playwright Adam Oehlenshläger is an attempt to take the poetic play at face...