Film making approach

Dogme 95 is a film making movement created in 1995 surrounding a set of rules created by Danish producers Lars von Trier and Thomas Vinterberg.
These 2 producers created a set of film making rules for the movement called the Vows of Chastity:

» Shooting must be done on location. Props and sets must not be brought in
» The sound must never be produced apart from the images or vice versa
» The camera must be hand-held
» The film must be in colour and special lighting is not permitted
» Optical work and filters are forbidden
» The film must not contain superficial action (eg murder)
» Temporal and geographical alienation are forbidden (That is to say that the film takes place here and now)
» Genre movies are not acceptable
» The film format must be Academy 35 mm (squarer aspect ratio)
» The director must not be credited

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35 Dogme films have been created in total, as the movement broke up in 2005 and the creators wanted to experiment with new projects.

Social/historical/political Context

Social: It was first presented to a cinema conference in Paris to celebrate cinema and its uncertain future. It was made to give artists the power instead of the studio.
Historical: As it was recent (1995) it was aiming to return to traditional film making in light of all the new technology being commonplace for film.
Political: Not particularly politically driven/influenced

Directors associated with the movement

Lars von Trier

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Lars von Trier was one of the founders of Dogme 95 and the Vows of Chastity. He directed the second Dogme film The Idiots (1998), and also directed Breaking the Waves (1996) which had the Dogme 95 style but broke some of the rules so it wasn’t counted.

Thomas Vinterberg

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Thomas Vinterberg was one of the founders of Dogme 95 and the Vows of Chastity, and directed the first Dogme film Festen (1998), which won the Jury Prize at the Cannes Film Festival.

Søren Kragh-Jacobsen

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Søren Kragh-Jacobsen was a prolific Dogme 95 film director, and eventually joined the Dogme Collective which was made up of him, Von Trier, Vinterberg and Levring. He directed multiple Dogme films, such as Mifune (1999) a romantic comedy, which was a different take on the Dogme style.

Kristian Levring

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Kristian Levring was also a prolific Dogme 95 film director, and was the fourth member of the Dogme collective. He directed the fourth Dogme 95 film The King Is Alive (2000)

Films associated with the movement

Festen (1998)

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Festen (Celebration) is a drama that’s storyline is based around abuse. The ‘home movie’ aesthetic that dogme movies bring helps create a disturbing and real atmosphere to the plot.
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Sources:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vKe_AxTFGXc
https://youtu.be/lC3xHVvcezY
https://youtu.be/wHMvR3CYDdk
http://www.dogme95.dk/about/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dogme_95