The Five Obstructions
About a filmmaker not only revisiting, but also recreating (not in a conventional sense) one of his first films, 1967’s The Perfect Human [Det perfekte menneske].
Stars and the Water Carriers
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…
Chinese Ping-Pong
An experimental sports film made partly during the Scandinavian Open Championships in Halmstad in 1970, partly during the Chinese players’ exhibition tour in Denmark immediately after the SOC. First of…
Ophelia’s Flowers
Jørgen Leth’s experimental take on Ophelia’s madness scene in Shakespeare’s Hamlet.
The Perfect Human
An elegant and humorous film—in the guise of a serious anthropological treatise—spotlights “The Perfect Human,” a model of the modern Dane created by our wishful thinking.