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kobvindex_ZLB15089027
Format:
3 DVD-Video (54/52/58/22/44/40/57/74/40 Min.)
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Tonformat: Mono ; Dolby sr ; stereo
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1 Beih. (16 Bl.)
Content:
The fifth DVD box set in the Jørgen Leth Collection comprises the Portraits, a collective term that, with a bit of goodwill, can be stretched to cover all eight films in the set. They range far from ballet to Danish literature and sports. In this box set, we find Leth's ballet films about the dancer Peter Martins and the Bournonville steps and tradition alongside literary portraits of the Danish authors Klaus Rifbjerg and Søren Ulrik Thomsen, plus a many-headed portrait of illustrious Danish writers from H.A. Brorson to Michael Strunge, and, finally, his films about sports icons, the footballer Michael Laudrup and the boxer Ayub Kalule. In all three areas, the filmmaker strives to portray people and situations by zeroing in on the creative process itself. In fact, this could be a header for Jørgen Leth's entire work. His fascination with the creative process and an individual's work with his material, the will to transcend one's limitations to achieve the sublime, is a clear and recurrent theme. It's evident in Laudrup's virtuosic ball-handling, in Thomsen reading his poetry and elaborating on the nature of poetry and the form of poems, and in Martin using his body and intellect to translate the language of choreography into movement through space, giving shape to the sublime by putting in the hours in the rehearsal studio. The filmmaker's fascination reins him in. In the way he shapes his fascination through objective detachment and a formalist approach, we recognise the method of anthropological observation that is such a strong thread in Leth's works. (Edition Filmmuseum)
Note:
Orig.: Dänemark, 1974 - 2008
Language:
Danish
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