The Deer Garden: The Romantic Forest (1970, Per Kirkeby, Jørgen Leth)

This film about the Deer Garden, a forest park north of Copenhagen, was an assignment to celebrate the Deer Gardens 300th anniversary. Leth and the painter Per Kirkeby above all wanted to do an attractive film about life in the forest orchestrated around the four seasons. The photography is heavily inspired by the Danish Golden Age painters view of nature. Kirkeby, Leth and DP Henning Camre worked on and off for a full year to find the ideal light and the optimum framing, seeking out the truly beautiful.