Henning Christiansen

Abandoned Goods (2014)

Abandoned Goods is an essay film exploring the journey of one of Britain's major collections of Asylum Art containing about 5,500 objects (paintings, drawings, ceramics, sculptures and works on stone, flint and bone) created between 1946 and 1981, by about ...

The Red Forest: An Oracle in Nine Illustrations (1987)

With the relationship between mother and daughter as a common theme, the film is divided into 9 image rooms with action patterns that are based on archetypal images and motifs. The film is unconventional in its choice of means of action. Ursula Reuter Chri ...

It's a World Full of Children (1980)

Susanne, a journalist, and Morten, a cellist, desperately want a child, but are unsuccessful. The situation leads to desperate acts, occasional drunkenness, and solace for her with a discreet lover. ...

The Executioner (1973)

Starring Reuter Christiansen herself and shot in the lush landscape of Møn, the Danish island where she has lived since 1970, THE EXECUTIONER uses a fragmented narrative to tell "a story of woman's degradation and exaltation," as its subtitle indicates. A ...

Inside (1971)

A cinematic experiment that moves in several planes. Four people act out a human course, seen with white silhouettes on a black background. 'Inside' them - or behind them - a different process plays out, supported and contradicted by the sound side. ...

The Search (1970)

The Search is the ultimate happening film created by a group of ABCinema members during a camp on the Juttish heath. The film consists of loosely composed sequences. The landscape is the setting for a series of peculiar occurrences in which individual memb ...

The Horse Sacrifice (1970)

Broadcast to a large portion of the Danish population in January 1970, Hesteofringen ('Horse Sacrifice') was the ostensible ritual slaughtering and dismemberment of a horse in protest of the ongoing war in Vietnam (the horse was actually very old and put d ...

Love (1970)

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

Krag-filmen (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. Relaxing on a bench in the garden of Copenhagen's Royal Academy of Fine Arts, Krag is scrutinised by c ...

Fargo. Slump I film (1969)

The Perfect Human (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. ...

The Horse Sacrifice (1970)

Broadcast to a large portion of the Danish population in January 1970, Hesteofringen ('Horse Sacrifice') was the ostensible ritual slaughtering and dismemberment of a horse in protest of the ongoing war in Vietnam (the horse was actually very old and put d ...

Fargo. Slump I film (1969)

Festival 200 (1969)

With the participation of Danish and foreign artists. Creation of a printing house, film screenings, production of the Potato Opera, etc. ...