Dogme 95

Dogma 95 (Danish Dogme 95), on 13 March 1995, signed by the Danish film directors Lars von Trier, Thomas Vinterberg, Kristian Levring and Søren Kragh -Jacobsen manifesto for the production of films. It was introduced on 20 March 1995 under a lot of attention of the media in a conference in Paris Odeon Theatre on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the film.

1998 presented Thomas Vinterberg and Lars von Trier The Idiots and hard on the film festival in Cannes, the first formed after the Dogma 95.

On 20 March 2005, ten years after the presentation in Paris, decided the four directors significantly concerned to let the idea of ​​partially fall. Each producer is free therefore to decide whether his film corresponds to published on the internet Dogma 95 criteria.

2008, the movement to Von Trier, Vinterberg, Levring and Kragh -Jacobsen with the European Film Awards in the category Best was considered Europe has achieved in world cinema.

Earlier actions to renew the film were in the 1950s, the native of France Nouvelle Vague and in 1962 published the Oberhausen Manifesto.

Requirements

The manifesto Dogma 95 is directed in particular against the increasing alienation from reality of cinema and exiled effects and technical finesse, illusion and dramatic predictability. Dogma 95 sees itself as a counter movement to the auteur theory, although - as the dogma initiators - originally ( early 1960s ) confronted the same grievances, but ultimately arrested within the system remained and therefore failed.

The rules to be observed, the (English " Vow of Chastity " ) have been presented as a " vow of chastity ", the following demand:

However, most of Dogma films violate one or more rules, which is then often ironically noted ruefully in the credits.

Important Dogma films

Depending on how you count, there are 35 to over 100 Dogma films. Some exemplary are: