In the 1990’s, many filmmakers began to resent the industrialised direction much of the film industry was headed. Big-budget blockbusters designed to attract sales over artistry polluted the landscape, provoking Danish directors Lars Von Trier and Thomas Vinterberg to commence the Dogme 95 movement.

The movement attempted to reinstate realism into the film industry, with a strict manifesto being formulated which directors had to follow if they wished to release a film under the Dogme title. It attempted to rid filmmaking of the confinement mainstream films placed onto the art by outlawing things like excessive special effects and props which weren’t available to the director in the real world.

The ‘Vow of Chastity’ (The rules of the Dogme movement):