Dogme 95

Dogme 95

6 Episodes

Thirty years ago, a group of filmmakers led by Lars von Trier and Thomas Vinterberg issued a provocative manifesto for a new avant-garde. Demanding that adherents take a series of “vows of chastity,” the movement known as Dogme 95 sought to liberate filmmaking from genre conventions and stylistic artifice, using handheld camera work, natural lighting and sound, and location shooting to achieve an intense, character-focused authenticity. This sampling includes some of Dogme’s defining entries—such as Vinterberg’s shattering chamber drama THE CELEBRATION and Harmony Korine’s fractured family portrait JULIEN DONKEY-BOY—as well as von Trier’s visionary musical DANCER IN THE DARK, a post-Dogme film that draws from the manifesto’s ethos even as it violates some of its core precepts. Finding creativity in constraint, these films reveal the lasting influence of an electrifying call to action that helped usher cinema into the new century.

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Dogme 95

6 Episodes

  • Dogme 95 Teaser
    01:33
    Dogme 95 Teaser
    Episode 1

    Dogme 95 Teaser

    Episode 1

  • Dancer in the Dark
    2:20:47
    Dancer in the Dark
    Episode 2

    Dancer in the Dark

    Episode 2

    Directed by Lars von Trier • 2000 • Denmark, France
    Starring Björk, Catherine Deneuve, David Morse

    A heartbreaking performance from avant-pop icon Björk lights up this singular, emotionally wrenching musical from Lars von Trier, who made use of over a hundred handheld digital video cameras to br...

  • Julien Donkey-Boy
    1:39:47
    Julien Donkey-Boy
    Episode 3

    Julien Donkey-Boy

    Episode 3

    Directed by Harmony Korine • 1999 • United States
    Starring Ewen Bremner, Chloë Sevigny, Werner Herzog

    The first Dogme 95 film made outside of Europe, Harmony Korine’s follow-up to his divisive GUMMO finds him and cinematographer Anthony Dod Mantle (who shot the original Dogme film, Thomas Vinter...

  • Mifune
    1:41:58
    Mifune
    Episode 4

    Mifune

    Episode 4

    Directed by Søren Kragh-Jacobsen • 1999 • Denmark, Sweden
    Starring Iben Hjejle, Anders W. Berthelsen, Jesper Asholt

    The third film made in accordance with the Dogme 95 movement’s so-called “vows of chastity” is an offbeat, darkly comic romance in which Kresten (Anders W. Berthelsen), a successfu...

  • Italian for Beginners
    1:34:59
    Italian for Beginners
    Episode 5

    Italian for Beginners

    Episode 5

    Directed by Lone Scherfig • 2000 • Denmark, Sweden
    Starring Peter Gantzler, Ann Eleonora Jørgensen, Anders W. Berthelsen

    Director Lone Scherfig brings the naturalistic, defiantly DIY principles of the Dogme 95 movement to a buoyant romantic comedy in this uplifting portrait of seven strangers on...

  • The Celebration
    1:45:35
    The Celebration
    Episode 6

    The Celebration

    Episode 6

    Directed by Thomas Vinterberg • 1998 • Denmark
    Starring Ulrich Thomsen, Henning Moritzen, Thomas Bo Larsen

    The Danish Dogme 95 movement that struck world cinema like a thunderbolt began with THE CELEBRATION, Thomas Vinterberg’s international breakthrough, a lacerating chamber drama that uses the...

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