The film has been ten years in the making, and over time it has grown to become what the director himself has called an artistic testament. It is simultaneously his…

Lars von Trier challenges his mentor, filmmaker Jørgen Leth, to remake Leth’s 1967 short film The Perfect Human five times, each with a different set of bizarre and challenging rules.

The Impossible Hour is a concentrated study of Ole Ritter’s attempt in Mexico City in 1974 to set a new record for the hour – described in the film as…