Film List Dogma 95 

Lars von Trier, Thomas Vinterberg or Soren Kragh-Jacobsen presented the Dogma 95 manifesto in the Odeon Theatre in Paris to mark the 100th birthday of film, with great media impact. The Feast and Idiots are the first feature films to be staged according to the established dogmas. The manifesto is directed (once again) against the alienation of cinema from reality. In fact, technical frippery is increasing rapidly in the 90s. Dogma is against many things and propagates a number of ingredients: Original locations without props brought in, no film music as background, the use of hand-held cameras, no effects or filters, no violence, no murders, no genre films, lastly the director's name must not appear anywhere either. The Dogma Manifesto can thus be interpreted as a kind of vow of chastity. After all, the demand to use "no stage directions" insinuates shameless indecency to the auteur theory! But in the course of development, let's call it post-Dogma, the rigid rules were softened. Dogma films were even allowed to be funny and seemed less and less dogmatic. Who knows, with a few ingredients like props, sets, lighting, music and style, the Dogma founding fathers will make really good films one day!