Jeg er levende - Søren Ulrik Thomsen, digter

Leth's portrait of the poet Søren Ulrik thomsen, who says: "An amazing thing about poetry is that it can think ans sense at the same time. the two ways of relating to the world are separate and often opposites". As in thomsen's poetry, so in Leth's film. We have to hone our ears, and our brains, to get every point the poet makes in the stories be tells, the exposition or in Thomsen's blowout, rhythmically insistent readings. Meanwhile, Leth's black and white images have a poetry and beauty of their own that curl around thomsen's words and take us in other directions.