Tour de France trailer 2009

In 2009, Jørgen Leth had his long awaited comeback as Tour de France commentator for Danish television network, TV2. See the already legendary Tour 2009 teaser here.

Simpson, Toksvig and Leth at the old theatre in Nørrebro

One dark week in October 2009, Jørgen Leth joined forces with the magical musical wizard Mikael Simpson and his multi-talented crew of high-profile Danish musicians. At a completely sold out venue in Nørrebro, Copenhagen, Leth freestyled his way through numerous different topics, thus creating little pieces of spoken word poetry accompanied by the hypnotic sounds of Simpson and crew. Some of the pieces were live interpretations of scores from the successful album, "Vi sidder bare her", while others (like in the video clip below) were entirely new.

For a review of the concert, please check out Gaffa

Video

Jørgen Leth, Abdulla S & Engberg, Roskilde Festival 2007:


Jørgen Leth & Lars von Trier: The Five Obstructions 2003:


Jørgen Leth & Andy Warhol: 66 Scenes From America 1982:


Jørgen Leth in 'De Uaktuelle Nyheder' 2007:

Christel Wiinblad's poem about Jørgen Leth:

A rough cut of selected scenes from Truls Lie's upcoming portrait of Jørgen Leth: