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| nationality      = Danish
| education        = The National Film School of Denmark (2001-2005)
| birth_date       = {{birth year and age|1973}}
| image            = Helene Moltke-Leth.jpg
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'''Helene Moltke-Leth''' (born 1973 in [[Copenhagen]]) is a Danish film director, artist and former DJ working across film, photography, sound, music and fine art.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Helene Moltke-Leth |url=https://www.imdb.com/name/nm6748793/ |access-date=10 October 2022 |website=IMDb}}</ref> <ref>{{Cite web |last=Omegalisten |first=Radio 24syv |date=17 January 2023 |title=Helene Moltke-Leth - Filminstruktøren, Musikconnaisseur & Dronningen af undergrunden |url=https://www.spreaker.com/user/radiolouddk/helene-final-online-audio-converter-com}}</ref> She graduated from [[National Film School of Denmark|The National Film School of Denmark]] in 2005 and has received twelve international film awards. Her work has been shown at museums and international film, art and poetry festivals including [[Tokyo Photographic Art Museum]], [[Ann Arbor Film Festival]], [[Berkshire International Film Festival]], [[Copenhagen International Documentary Film Festival]] and [[Odense International Film Festival]].<ref>{{Cite web |last=De Champfleury |first=Alice |date=27 November 2017 |title=Filminstruktør om sin yndlingsscene: »Samfundets barske realitet strømmer ud af hans hjerte« |url=https://politiken.dk/kultur/art6224894/%C2%BBSamfundets-barske-realitet-str%C3%B8mmer-ud-af-hans-hjerte%C2%AB |website=Politiken newspaper}}</ref> She also serves as a jury member for a film festivals.
== Life and career ==
Helene Moltke-Leth was born in 1973 in [[Copenhagen|Copenhagen, Denmark]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=Helene Moltke-Leth |url=https://www.dfi.dk/viden-om-film/filmdatabasen/person/helene-moltke-leth |access-date=10 October 2022 |website=Film Databasen}}</ref> In the 1990s, she worked as a DJ, radio and TV presenter for [[DR (broadcaster)|The Danish Broadcasting Corporation]] and [[TV 2 (Denmark)|TV2 Denmar]]<nowiki/>k, hosting the music programs P3 GO!, Uland and Puls.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Bank |first=Rikke |date=22 November 2019 |title=KVINDER I KUNST: HELENE MOLTKE-LETH |url=http://www.vinkkbh.dk/kunst/kvinder-i-kunst-helene-moltke-leth/ |website=VINKkbh |access-date=10 October 2022 |archive-date=24 January 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200124095421/http://www.vinkkbh.dk/kunst/kvinder-i-kunst-helene-moltke-leth/ |url-status=dead }}</ref> She interviewed electronic DJs and artists such as [[Underworld (band)|Underworld]], [[Prodigy (rapper)|Prodigy]], [[The Chemical Brothers]], [[Moby]], [[DJ Sneak]], [[Kenny Larkin]], [[David Holmes (musician)|David Holmes]], [[Matthew Herbert]], Patrick Pulsinger and Erdem Tunika.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Radioarv |url=https://det-dur.dk/phlgvd.html |access-date=10 October 2022 |website=Det DUR DK}}</ref> In 1996 she co-founded the nightclub Klub [[Vega, Copenhagen|Vega]], and she is recognized as being one of Denmark's first electronic female DJs and a prominent figure in the early rise of the electronic music scene.
In 2005 she graduated from [[National Film School of Denmark|The National Film School of Denmark.]]
Her work within music and poetry includes the documentary '[[Underworld (band)|Underworld]]' about the British electronic music group's ''[[Beaucoup Fish]]'' tour, and the documentary ”[[Roskilde Festival|Roskilde]],” which she co-directed with Ulrik Wivel. Her music documentary ”Same Old Song” follows three Danish musicians, [[:da:Track72|Tue Track]], [[Mikkel Hess]] and Joy Morgan, who created a love song while exploring what it meant to be single at the start of the millennium. In 2006 she made 5 short poetry films with Danish poets Mette Moestrup, Maja Lee Langvad, Hans Lucht, Marie Mamonia og Lasse Thorning which was broadcast on [[DR (broadcaster)|The Danish Broadcasting Corporation]] and presented at several Nordic film festivals. In 2007, she received the Best Short Fiction Award at [[Odense International Film Festival|Odense international Film Festival]] for the short poetry film ”Sporenstregs" featuring Danish poet Lasse Thorning.<ref>{{Cite web |date=1 September 2007 |title=Prisvindere |url=https://fyens.dk/artikel/prisvindere-2007-9-1 |access-date=10 October 2022 |website=Fyens Newspaper}}</ref> Her short poetry film ”Beyond Words” received the Special Merits at the Faces of Wisdom Short Film Competition in 2014.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2014 |title=Helene Moltke-Leth |url=http://www.facesofwisdom.org/ |access-date=10 October 2022 |website=Faces of Wisdom Film |archive-date=19 September 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200919093233/http://www.facesofwisdom.org/ |url-status=dead }}</ref> The film included a poem by Else Beyer Knuth-Winterfeldt. In 2016, she created the short poetry film ”Running Through Life.” It received six international awards in Asia, USA and Europe including Best Short Award (Minister's Award, the Ministry of Environment) and the J-WAVE Award, at Short Shorts Film Festival & Asia, Japan, 2016 and The Next Great Filmmaker Award, at Berkshire International Film Festival, in 2017.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2013 |title=Save the Earth! Competition Best Short Award (Minister’s Award, the Ministry of Environment), J-WAVE Award, Winner: Helene Moltke-Leth |url=https://shortshorts.org/2016/en/award/earth/ |access-date=10 October 2022 |website=Short Shorts}}</ref> The short film ”Running Through Life” was also shown at the opening of the sustainability conference [[Global fashion agenda|Copenhagen Fashion Summit]] in 2016. The film was a meditation on the limitations of modern society. In 2022, her short climate art film ‘I C’ received the Best Experimental Film Award at Manchester Film Festival.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Winners |url=https://www.maniff.com/new-page-2 |website=Manchester Film Festival |access-date=2022-10-10 |archive-date=2022-10-24 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221024071511/https://www.maniff.com/new-page-2 |url-status=dead }}</ref> She was in 2022 jury member for the 60Seconds Festival, celebrating silent artistic films in public spaces.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Jury 2022 |url=https://60sec.org/jury2022 |access-date=10 November 2022 |website=60 Seconds Film Festival}}</ref>
Her first solo exhibition ‘Who or What is God Now?’ was shown at DGI-byen in Copenhagen and included eight abstract photographs of nature that portrayed fragments of the rainbow.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2019 |title=Hvem - eller hvad er Gud nu? |url=http://image.nyhedsbrev.dgibyen.dk/lib/fe36117075640475711478/m/1/0002e768-683c-43aa-83d6-d9cae30c0021.pdf |access-date=10 October 2022 |website=DGI-Byen |archive-date=10 October 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221010161210/http://image.nyhedsbrev.dgibyen.dk/lib/fe36117075640475711478/m/1/0002e768-683c-43aa-83d6-d9cae30c0021.pdf |url-status=dead }}</ref> The exhibition addressed the symbolism of the rainbow and was a comment on climate change.
In December 2022, she released the music and video work "European Silk Road" in collaboration with Hess Is More and Josephine Philip. In 2023, the music track was remixed by [[Matthew Herbert]] and [[Sorenious Bonk]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=European Silk Road - App {{!}} The Silk Road Symphony Orchestra {{!}} Berlin |url=https://www.silkroadsymphonyorchestra.com/europeansilkroad |access-date=2024-07-11 |website=TheSRSO |language=en}}</ref>
Earlier in her career she worked within portrait documentaries, and directed ”I Danmark, dér hører jeg hjemme” which portrayed the life of [[:da:Isi_Foighel|Isi Foighel]], former Danish minister and judge at the [[European Court of Human Rights]]. She directed the TV-documentary ”Opgøret med fortiden” and six episodes of the TV-documentary series ”Meningen med livet og andre småting” with key figures part of the Danish intellectual elite: Jokum Rohde, [[Ursula Andkjær Olsen]], [[Søren Ulrik Thomsen]], Niels Grønkjær, [[Carsten Jensen|Casten Jensen]], Katrine Wiedemann, [[Katrine Gislinge]], [[Thierry Geoffroy]], [[Per Aage Brandt]], [[Puk Damsgård]] og Dy Plambeck. She created ten short films featuring key players in the Danish fashion industry in 2007. The films were shown on large outdoor screens around the city during [[Copenhagen Fashion Week]], and included interviews with Naja Lauf, E-Types, Diana Brinks, [[Designers Remix]], [[Ole Yde]], [[Day Birger|Day Birger et Mikkelsen]], Gestuz, Unique Models, Dyrberg/Kern and Kaffe Clothing. In 2022 she collaborated with fashion designer [[Henrik Vibskov]] on the short poetry film ‘Bibliotheca of Micro Selves’ which was shown at [[Paris Fashion Week]].
== Awards ==
Moltke-Leth has been nominated for several awards and she has received twelve international awards:
* I C’, Best Experimental Film, Montreal Independent Film Festival, Canada, Marts 2023.
* I C’, Best Environmental Film, Montreal Independent Film Festival, Canada, Marts 2023.
* I C’, Best Experimental Short Film, Izmit International Short Film Festival (IISFF), Turkey, 17-18 November, 2022.
* ‘I C’, Best Experimental Film, Manchester Film Festival, United Kingdom, 2022.
* ‘Running Through Life’, The Next Great Filmmaker Award, Berkshire International Film Festival, US, 2017.
* ‘Running Through Life’, Best Experimental Film, Manchester Film Festival, United Kingdom, 2017.
* ‘Running Through Life’, The Audience Award, Be a Better Being, Germany, 2016.
* ‘Running Through Life’, International Public's Selection Award, Festival Silêncio, Portugal, 2016.
* ‘Running Through Life’, Best Short Award (Minister's Award, the Ministry of Environment), Short Shorts Film Festival & Asia, Japan, 2016.
* ‘Running Through Life’, J-WAVE Award, Short Shorts Film Festival & Asia 2016, Japan, 2016.
* ‘Beyond Words’, Special Merits, Faces of Wisdom Film, 2014.
* ‘Sporenstregs’, Best Danish Short Fiction, Odense International Film Festival, Denmark, 2007.
== See also ==
* [[List of Danish women artists|List of Danish artists]]
* [[:da:Helene Moltke-Leth|Helene Moltke-Leth (in Danish)]]
* [https://vimeo.com/helenemoltkeleth Vimeo trailers - Helene Moltke-Leth]
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