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Ole John Povlsen is a Danish producer, director, and cinematographer. He was trained as a portrait photographer and graduated as a cinematographer from The National Film School of Denmark. He post-graduated from EAVE (European Audiovisual Entrepreneurs) 1992 and attended Cass Film Business School in London 2010. Throughout his film career, he has worked intensively on developing new talents in Danish Film. He was associate professor at Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, Germany 1971-75, head of the Danish Film Workshop 1977-84, chairman of the Danish Producers Association and on the board of the Danish Film Institute 1987-91. From 1994-98 he was director of New Danish Screen and from 1998-2009 he headed the producer education and was deputy director at the National Film School. From 2009-12 he developed and was project manager at Copenhagen Film Mentor.

Most Popular Ole John Trailers

Total trailers found: 21

Krag-filmen Trailer (1969)

01 January 1969

The ABCinema group dispatched Jørgen Leth to make the arrangements with Prime Minister Jens Otto Krag, who good-naturedly put himself at their disposal.

Pelota Trailer (1983)

09 September 1983

A documentary view of the Basque ball-game in which a small hard leather ball is hit against a wall. The film gives an impression of the game itself and of those who play it, not only the star performers (and the myths that surround them), but also those who just play in the streets and alleyways.

The Search Trailer (1970)

24 December 1970

The Search is the ultimate happening film created by a group of ABCinema members during a camp on the Juttish heath.

Look Forward to a Time of Security Trailer (1964)

01 January 1964

A study of the basic elements of film, first and foremost framing and the relationship between image and sound.

The Ballad of the Viking King, Holger the Dane Trailer (1996)

30 August 1996

This puppet film is a visually rich interpretation of the national hero Holger Danske. The story begins with Holger's birth and baptism in pagan Denmark around the year 800.

Motion Picture Trailer (1970)

01 January 1970

The film may be viewed as a study of the nature of the medium and more specifically of the phenomena of framing, movement, and synchronicity of sound and picture.

Ophelia's Flowers Trailer (1968)

18 August 1968

Jørgen Leth's experimental take on Ophelia's madness scene in Shakespeare's Hamlet.

66 Scenes from America Trailer (1982)

27 March 1982

As a visual narrative it is reminiscent of a pile of postcards from a journey, which indeed is what the film is.

Inside Trailer (1971)

01 January 1971

A cinematic experiment that moves in several planes. Four people act out a human course, seen with white silhouettes on a black background.

Frændeløs Trailer (1970)

01 January 1970

Anthology of six experimental films. 1) Allan de Waal: Investigation of an abandoned hippie house. 2) Bjørn Nørgaard and Lene Adler Petersen: The female Christ.

Love Trailer (1970)

01 January 1970

An existential pictorial poem about human life. "Can they stand it? Do they never feel?" (DFI)

New York Street Performers Trailer (1982)

01 January 1982

Various street performers in action.

ABCinema Trailer (2009)

01 January 2009

A documentary and series of interviews about the ABCinema movement/production group.

Near Heaven, Near Earth Trailer (1968)

01 January 1968

Short film about hippie life in Nepal.

Dancing Bournonville Trailer (1979)

01 January 1979

At danse Bournonville is a portrait of the Bournonville tradition at the Royal Danish ballet that has survived for 150 years on the basis of a few notes and the memories of the dancers and is the basis of the special nature and global reputation the company enjoys.

Rødovrefilmen Trailer (1969)

01 January 1969

Artist group ABCinema's footage from Rødovrecentret, Denmark's first large shopping center in Rødovre, a suburb of Copenhagen.

The Perfect Human Trailer (1968)

14 June 1968

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.

Fargo. Slump I film Trailer (1969)

01 January 1969

Stop for Bud Trailer (1963)

17 December 1963

Stop for Bud is Jørgen Leth's first film and the first in his long collaboration with Ole John. […] they wanted to "blow up cinematic conventions and invent cinematic language from scratch".

Peter Martins: A Dancer Trailer (1978)

01 November 1978

A late 1970s look at Danish ballet star Peter Martins's art and an assessment of what makes him unique and highly lauded on the international stage of ballet.

Transsibirische Bahn Trailer (1970)

01 February 1970

A short film about an installation of the same name created by Joseph Beuys between 1961 and 1969, as well as an action of the same name that Beuys performed in February 1970 on the occasion of his exhibition "Tabernacle" at the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art in Humlebæk.