Jørgen Leth Collection 12-18 - 3-DVD Box Set ( 66 Scener fra Amerika / Nye scener fra Amerika / Notater fra Kina / Det legende menneske / Aarhus / Haiti. Uden titel / Drømmere ) ( 66 Scenes from America (Six Sixty Scenes from America) / New Scenes from America / Notebook from China / Moments of Play / Aarhus / Haiti. Untitled / Dreamers )

Jørgen Leth Collection 12-18 - 3-DVD Box Set (DVD) (*)

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Original Title: 66 Scener fra Amerika / Nye scener fra Amerika / Notater fra Kina / Det legende menneske / Aarhus / Haiti. Uden titel / Drømmere
Alternate Title: 66 Scenes from America (Six Sixty Scenes from America) / New Scenes from America / Notebook from China / Moments of Play / Aarhus / Haiti. Untitled / Dreamers
Screened, competed or awarded at:
Other Film Festival Awards

Language Selections:
Danish ( Mono )
English ( Subtitles )

Product Origin/Format:
Denmark ( PAL/Region 0 )

Running Time:
468 min

Aspect Ratio:
Fullscreen

Special Features:
3-DVD Set
Box Set
Interactive Menu
Scene Access

Movie filmed in 1982 - 2005 and produced in:
Denmark ( Scandinavia, Iceland )
United States ( USA, Canada )

Directed By:
Jørgen Leth

Written By:
Ole John
Jørgen Leth

Actors:
Jørgen Leth
Henree Alyse ..... Waitress
John Ashbery ..... Himself - Poet
John Cale ..... Himself - Musician
Robert Frank ..... Himself - Cinematographer
Roy Haynes ..... Himself
Dennis Hopper ..... Himself - Actor
Mark Kurlansky ..... Himself
Peter Martins ..... Himself
Albert Maysles ..... Himself
Patrick Slavin ..... Himself
Asger Leth ..... Himself
Jørgen Leth ..... Narrator
Torben Ulrich
Jean-Bertrand Aristide ..... Himself
Toto Constant ..... Himself
Raoul Cédras ..... Himself
Sophie Destin ..... Herself
Chantal Regnault ..... Herself
Franck Romain ..... Himself
Richard Antilhomme ..... Himself - Painter (archive footage)
Rigaud Benoit ..... Himself - Painter (archive footage)
Wilson Bigaud ..... Himself - Painter (archive footage)
Préfète Duffaut ..... Himself - Painter (archive footage)
Gérard Fortuné ..... Himself - Painter (archive footage)
Jasmin Joseph ..... Herself - Painter (footage shot in 1984) (archive footage)
André Normil ..... Himself - Painter (archive footage)
Philomé Obin ..... Himself - Painter (archive footage)
Salnave Philippe-Auguste ..... Himself - Painter (archive footage)
André Pierre ..... Himself - Painter (archive footage)
Prospèr Pierre-Louis ..... Himself - Painter (archive footage)
Louisiane Saint-Fleurant ..... Herself - Painter (archive footage)
St. Jacques Smith ..... Himself - Painter (archive footage)

Synopsis:

For five decades, Jørgen Leth has been one of the most distinctive artists in Danish cinema. This third box set in the series contains Leth's travel films. 'Images have a primary quality for me - ahead of the story,' Leth once said. 'I like it when the observed subject can be perceived breathing through the image.' In his travel films, the director is again an anthropologist observing the world with detached intensity and refraining from analysis. This role of ostensibly unknowing, curious spectator is characteristic of Leth. 66 Scenes from America, the earliest film in the box set, shows snapshots of archetypical American locations - motels, diners, highways, a lone cactus - iconographic images of a mythological country presented in bright postcard colours, sanitized, like the myth of America. In the latest film, Leth travels back to Aarhus, the city of his childhood, whose familiar locales are likewise captured in the director's trademark tableau style. In between, we find his Haitian films. For years, Leth has lived in Haiti, a country that enthrals him and gives him the 'feeling of personally delving beneath the surface, into chaos.' Chaos is reflected in the raw, documentary style of these films, a far cry from his American postcards or Chinese notebook, confronting unknown territory with fresh eyes and no agenda. In a similar vein, his film about Homo ludens, 'playing man,' documents people at play around the globe, including the filmmaker's own game with reality.

66 Scenes from America (1982)
New Scenes from America (2003)
Notebook from China (1986)
Moments of Play (1986)
Aarhus (2005)
Haiti. Untitled (1996)
Dreamers (2002)

This product was added to our catalog on Monday 26 September, 2011.

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