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- 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 members were free to realize personal ideas, fantasies and themes: a man runs across the heath, shouting, a Molotov cocktail flares on a beach, a man repeatedly falls over, an angel-like woman makes a solitary procession, a burning pine, a man breaking a tree with a shovel, etc. Several of the scenes obviously draw on religious themes but this does not mean that there is a thematic key to the film. It was shot in 35 mm and the images have a slightly russet hue. Henning Christiansen composed a soundtrack of gloomy organ music, occasionally augmented by urban noises contrasted with the countryside. Brief pieces of text by Jørgen Leth (hand-written by Per Kirkeby) resembling fragments of a film script have been inserted between the tableaux and inspire other readings or visions: "camouflage", "A car passes", "The Sun sets or rises", "The heath is alive", "Helicopters fly across the landscape in long lines, parallel lines".
- Fragmentary super 8 footage shot at Dyrehaven north of Copenhagen with ABCinema members as cameramen and hence directors. The shots of the group filming one another gives the film a powerfully self-reflecting character. The footage was then assembled onto four reels and shown from four projectors at events arranged by the Copenhagen experimental filmmakers.
- Expressing love and existence in an experimental way. Thorsboe's graduation film.
- A collage of super 8 footage of Jens Otto Krag [former Danish prime minister] from off-beat, untraditional angles, rapid pans, etc. The film plays with the portrait concept. It was shown the same way as Dyrehavefilmen, accompanied by a sound collage of repeated sound bites and different pieces of music. Jens Otto Krag is preserved the same way as Dyrehavefilmen on 16 mm film.
- About a Danish film collective in 1968-70 that tried to gather the arts and formulate a new film language. The group counted several later-renowned Danish artists, including Jørgen Leth.