About - Helene Moltke-Leth

Helene Moltke-Leth. Photo by Maria Sattrup

Biography

Helene Moltke-Leth is an award-winning film director, artist and former DJ working across film, photography, sound, music, and art. Based in Copenhagen, she has received 12 international awards, and her work has been presented at over 60 art, poetry, and film festivals globally.

As one of Denmark’s first female DJ’s, Helene Moltke-Leth began her career as a DJ and radio presenter for the Danish Broadcasting Corporation and played an important role in the rise of the country’s electronic music scene. Educated at the National Film School of Denmark, she has for the past two decades earned recognition for her artworks spanning short films, poetry, photography, fine art, sound production, music and as a jury member at film festivals.

With an interdisciplinary approach, she is known for her strong visual language and rhythmic sensibility. Her works are filled with impressions – they are an unambiguous expression of context, all the while maintaining intimate subjective reflections at their core. Her films and artworks address the challenges we face as individuals and as a society in modern culture. She has led production teams and collaborated with artists and cultural institutions to explore new ways of experiencing art and culture.

She has the last 10 years focused her artistic work on raising awareness around the environment, sustainability, and social responsibility.

Helene Moltke-Leth is part of Zoe Alpha Art Collective. An artist collective of a group of artists, who believes that life is richer than any single theory about it can capture.

Photos by Zoe Alpha Art Collective

CV

EXPERIENCE

Film Director, Artist etc. 2005 – present
TV Presenter, TV2 Denmark, 1998 – 1999
DJ Booker, VEGA, 1996 – 1998
DJ and Radio Presenter, Danish Broadcasting Corporation (DR) 1994 – 1998

EDUCATION

Film Director, educated in documentary filmmaking from the The National Film School of Denmark 2001 – 2005
TV and Media Journalist, The Danish School of Media and Journalism 2000 – 2001

AWARDS

Best Experimental Film, at Montreal Independent Film Festival to the film ‘I c’ in Canada, March 2023
Best Environmental Film, at Montreal Independent Film Festival to the film ‘I c’ in Canada, March 2023
Best Experimental Short Film, at Izmit International Short Film Festival to the film ‘I c’ in Turkey, November 2022
Best Experimental Film, at Manchester Film Festival, to the film ‘I c’, United Kingdom, 2022
The Next Great Filmmaker Award, Berkshire International Film Festival, to the film ‘Running Through Life’, US, 2017
Best Experimental Film, Manchester Film Festival, to the film ‘Running Through Life’, United Kingdom, 2017
The Audience Award, Be a Better Being, to the film ‘Running Through Life’, Germany, 2016
International Public’s Selection Award, Festival Silêncio, to the film ‘Running Through Life’,Portugal, 2016
Best Short Award (Minister’s Award, the Ministry of
Environment), Short Shorts Film Festival & Asia, to the film ‘Running Through Life’, Japan, 2016
J-WAVE Award, Short Shorts Film Festival & Asia 2016, to the film ‘Running Through Life’,Japan, 2016
Special Merits, Faces of Wisdom Film, to the film ‘Beyond Words’, 2014
Best Danish Short Fiction, Odense International Film Festival, to the film ‘Sporenstregs’, Denmark, 2007

SELECTED SOLO AND GROUP EXIBITIONS

‘European Silk Road,’ ESP App, Callias Foundation, Germany, 2022
Saul Hay Gallery, United Kingdom, 2022
‘Who or What is God Now?,’ DGI-Byen, Denmark, 2019-2020
Saul Hay Gallery, United Kingdom, 2017
Tokyo Photographic Art Museum, Japan, 2016
‘Videotage’, Hong Kong, 2016
Papay Gyro Nights Art Festival, United Kingdom, 2016

SELECTED FIL SCREENINGS

Artistic and avant-garde film festivals, 2022

Videoart.Ist International Video Art Screening Program in Turkey, 2023
55th Ann Arbor Film Festival, Michigan, USA, 2017
Artcroft Film and Video Festival, Kentucky, USA, 2016

Poetry film festivals

Fotogenia Festival, Mexico City, Mexico, 2022
Zebra Poetry Film Festival, Berlin, Germany, 2022
Zebra Poetry Film Festival, Nanjing, China, 2018.
Copenhagen Short Film Festival, Copenhagen, 2017
Zebra Poesiefilmclub, Haus für Poesie Berlin, Germany, 2016
Zebra Poetry Film Festival, Münster/Berlin, Germany, 2016
Festival Silêncio, Lisbon, Portugal, 2016
Zebra Poesiefilmclub, Haus für Poesie Berlin, 2016
DOCtorCLIP, Roma International Poetry Film Festival, Rome, Italy, 2015
Festival Silêncio, Lisbon, Portugal, 2015
Zebra Poetry Film Festival, Münster, Germany, 2015
Oslo Internasjonale Poesifestival, Oslo, Norway, 2015
Zebra Poetry Film Festival, Berlin, Germany, 2014
Filmpoem Festival, Antwerpen, Belgium, 2014
Faces of Wisdom Film competition, 2014

Selected film festivals

New York City Independent Film Festival, 2023
Montreal Independent Film Festival, 2023
Chicago Indie Film Award, 2022
Beirut Shorts International Film Festival, 2022
Spicy Indie International Film Festival, 2022
Izmit International Short Film Festival (IISFF) Turkey, 2022
Paris Independent Film Festival, France, 2022
Green Film Festival, San Francisco, USA, 2022
International Short Film Festival, Cyprus, 2022
Next Generation Indie Film Award in Hollywood, USA, 2022
Manchester Film Festival, Manchester, United Kingdom, 2022
5th Long Night, Zukunft am Ostkreuz, Berlin, Germany, 2017
12th Berkshire International Film Festival, Massachusetts, USA, 2017
Manchester Film Festival, Manchester, United Kingdom, 2017
interfilm, 32nd International Short Film Festival, Berlin, Germany, 2016
Be a Better Being Short Film Competition and Academic Forum, Berlin, Germany, 2016
Nordic International Film Festival, New York City, USA, 2016
6th International Short Film Festival, Cyprus, 2016
Cannes Short Film Festival, Cannes, France, 2016
Short Shorts Film Festival & Asia, Tokyo, Japan, 2016
Culture Unplugged, We Speak Here film festival, 2012
IFEMA Filmfestival, Sweden, 2008
Nordisk Panorama Oulu, Finland, 2007
Odense International Film Festival August, Odense, Denmark, 2007
Copenhagen International Documentary Film Festival (CPH:DOX), Denmark, 2006
FEST, Festival Novos Cineastas Novo Cinema, Portugal, 2006
6th Young Guns Film Festival, Singapore, 2006
The 24th Ethnographic Film Panorama (Bilan du Film Ethnographique), France, 2005
Rencontres Internationales Henri Langlois, Poitiers International Film Schools Festival, France, 2005
IV Sant-Petersburg Open Film Festival, Russia, 2005
Femmina International Filmfestival, Sweden, 2005
The 34th Roshd International Film Festival, Iran, 2004

Other festivals etc. and online platforms

Paris Fashion Week, Paris, France, 2022
Community Space, Glasgow, Scotland, 2021
Pow Festival (Power of Women Festival Copenhagen), Denmark, 2019
Pow Festival (Power of Women Festival Copenhagen), Denmark, 2017
Talk Town, National Library of Copenhagen, Denmark, 2017
Copenhagen Fashion Summit, Copenhagen, Denmark, 2016

Photos by Zoe Alpha Art Collective

RADIO & DJ

Between 1994-2000, Helene Moltke-Leth’s life was all about electronic music. She worked as a DJ and radio presenter on her own show at DR P3 (The Danish Broadcasting Corporation). Helene founded the nightclub Klub Vega in Copenhagen, worked as a house music editor and wrote for the music magazine F100. Here is a few examples from that period of time.

Helene Moltke-Leth · Det Elektroniske Vindue 29.09.96 - Louisiana

Helene Moltke-Leth · Det Elektroniske Vindue 16.04.96

Helene Moltke-Leth · Sommer GO! 22.08.95

Journalism for the music magazine F100

Interview with DJ Snake for magazine F100 Volume 01 no. 03 in 1998.
Written by Helene Moltke-Leth.

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Journalism for the music magazine F100

Interview with Tobias Von Hoften for magazine F100 Volume 01 no. 01 in 1998.
Written by Helene Moltke-Leth

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Helene Moltke-Leth. Photo by Maria Sattrup