Directed by Thomas Vinterberg
Produced by Nimbus Film Productions

Dogme # 2: Idioterne (Denmark)
Directed by Lars von Trier
Produced by Zentropa Entertainments

A group of young people, who live in a large house, pretend in the public to be idiots. They try to find their 'inner idiot'. By accident Karen gets involved in this group. In the end it turns out that one of them really had the disease the others were pretending and the group falls apart. Some serious questions about society's attitude to the disabled arise when watching the movie. The funny thing is the reactions to the idiots rather than the idiots themselves. The film is very provocative because of its sensitive subject. The movie seems to break with the Dogme rules, as film music appears, but von Trier reveals in an interview that the source of the music - the harmonica player - was located behind the camera while shooting. So the sound is always recorded with the image, however tricky this is to achieve.
Dogme # 3: Mifunes Sidste Sang (Denmark)
Directed by Søren Kragh-Jacobsen
Produced by Nimbus Film Productions

Dogme # 4: The King Is Alive (Denmark)
Directed by Kristian Levring
Produced by Zentropa Entertainments

Dogme # 5: Lovers (France)
Directed by Jean-Marc BarrProduced by TF1 International

Dogme # 6: Julien Donkey-Boy (USA)
Directed by Harmony KorineProduced by Independent Pictures

Dogme # 7: Interview (Korea)
Directed by Daniel H. ByunProduced by CINE 2000 Production

Dogme # 8: Fuckland (Argentina)
Directed by Jose Luis MarquesProduced by ATOMIC FILMS S.A.

Dogme # 9: Babylon (Sweden)
Directed by Vladan ZdravkovicProduced by AF&P, MH Company
Dogme # 10: Chetzemoka's Curse (USA)
Directed by Rick Schmidt, Maya Berthoud,
Morgan Schmidt-Feng, Dave Nold,
Lawrence E. Pado, Marlon Schmidt
and Chris Tow.
Only the second American Dogme 95 movie, Chetzemoka's Curse is about a young, twenty-something woman, Maya (Maya Berthoud), who is haunted by the memory of her first love and her subsequent betrayal. She still feels the pain, works to exorcise it as she wiles away her life as a maid in a small town hotel.But her road to health seems to include passing the bad karma along. She encourages an older married man to run off with her and betray his wife and kids. Betrayal is in the air. Even an itinerant street musician sings about his infidelity. Bottom line, he says, is that he betrayed himself.
Dogme # 11: Diapason (Italy)
Directed by Antonio Domenici
Produced by FLYING MOVIES s.r.l.
Two stories run on parallel lines in a nocturnal
Rome. Marcello is an easygoing sixty-five year old film producer trying to
convince a beautiful actress to accept a part in a film. The other protagonist
is a group of petty criminals and illegal immigrants who pass the night
stealing, taking drugs, having sex and drinking.
Dogme # 12: Italiensk For Begyndere (Denmark)

Dogme # 13: Amerikana (USA)
Directed by James Merendino
Produced by Gerhard Schmidt and Sisse Graum Olsen
Cologne Gemini Filmproduktion and Zentropa Productions 2
Avedoere Tvaervej 10
2650 Hvidovre
Directed by James Merendino
Produced by Gerhard Schmidt and Sisse Graum Olsen
Cologne Gemini Filmproduktion and Zentropa Productions 2
Avedoere Tvaervej 10
2650 Hvidovre

Dogme # 14: Joy Ride (Switzerland)
Directed by Martin Rengel
Produced by ABRAKADABRA Films AG
Theaterstrasse 10
CH-8001 Zürich
Swiss
The first
Dogma-certified Swiss film, Joyride (Dogma #14) is based on a true story about
teenage violence and murder. The main character is 18-year-old Sandra, a young
Swiss woman bored with her life in a bleak industrial zone. But things get more
exciting the day she meets up with a gang of neighborhood toughs, led by her
heartthrob, Daniel. When Sandra becomes a member of the group and joins in
their mischief, Daniel finds himself falling in love with her. They begin
spending more and more time in one
another's company until Daniel's lackeys decide it has gone too far. When
Daniel refuses to dump Sandra, the gang arranges for a joyride into the
countryside where they plot to get rid of her themselves. The film features
Edward Piccin, better known to Swiss television audiences as the lovable Röbi
on the popular sitcom, Mannerzimmer. ~ Connor McMadden, Rovi
Dogme # 15: Camera (USA)Directed by Rich Martini
Produced by Rich Martini
P.O. Box 248
Santa Monica, CA. 90406
USA
Produced by Rich Martini
P.O. Box 248
Santa Monica, CA. 90406
USA
Story of a video
camera that goes on an adventure around the world. It's stolen, pawned, bought
and generally goes in and out of bedrooms, shoots commercials, follows the life
of an average ordinary video camera that goes around the planet until it winds
up in the hands of filmmaker Richard Martini. This film has been designated at
Dogma #15 by the Danish film group Dogme95
Dogme # 16: Bad Actors (USA)
Directed by Shaun Monson
Produced by Nicole Visram
Immortal Pictures
4000-D West Magnolia Blvd.
Suite 260
Burbank, CA 91505
USA
Directed by Shaun Monson
Produced by Nicole Visram
Immortal Pictures
4000-D West Magnolia Blvd.
Suite 260
Burbank, CA 91505
USA
Dogme # 17: Reunion (USA)
Directed by Leif Tilden
Produced by Kimberly Shane O'Hara and Eric M. Klein
5460 White Oak Avenue E335
Encino
Directed by Leif Tilden
Produced by Kimberly Shane O'Hara and Eric M. Klein
5460 White Oak Avenue E335
Encino
Dogme # 18: Et Rigtigt Menneske (Denmark)
Script and Director: Åke Sandgren
Produced by Ib Tardini
Zentropa Productions
Avedoere Tvaervej 10
2650 Hvidovre
Script and Director: Åke Sandgren
Produced by Ib Tardini
Zentropa Productions
Avedoere Tvaervej 10
2650 Hvidovre
An enchanted innocent
who loves children discovers he cannot be trusted in the modern world in this
contemporary fable. Lise (Line Kruse) is a seven-year-old girl whose yuppie
parents have little time to spend with her. Lonely and needing a grown-up role
model, Lise conjures up an adult as an imaginary friend -- P (Nikolaj Lie
Kaas), a big but warm-hearted man who hides behind the walls of her bedroom
when grown-ups are around. Lise dies in an auto wreck, and P is forced to enter
the real world and fend for himself. Strangers take pity of the guileless P,
and he soon has a job and a place to live, and even strikes up a friendship
with Lise's parents, who only now realize how much they loved the daughter they
lost. But as one might expect, P has a soft spot for children, and when he
strikes up friendships with a number of kids in the neighborhood, several
people wonder if he's making improper advances towards his young acquaintances.
Director Ake Sandgren filmed Et Rigtift Menneske using the strictly acetic boundaries
of the Dogma 95 style.
Dogme # 19: Når Nettene Blir Lange (Norway)
Directed by Mona J. Hoel
Produced by Malte Forssell
Freedom From Fear A/S
Dogme # 19: Når Nettene Blir Lange (Norway)
Directed by Mona J. Hoel
Produced by Malte Forssell
Freedom From Fear A/S
A large family is
going to the mountain for their christmas vacation, in a rented cabin. Problems
occur on Christmas Eve when the father gets drunk and his alcohol problem comes
to show. We get to learn a lot about the family's background, and secrets are revealed.
If you look behind the curtain, they've got a whole other story to tell than
what it looks from the outside.
Dogme # 20: Strass (Belgium)
Directed by Vincent Lannoo
Produced by Dadowsky Film
Rue De Belgrade 13
1190 Forest (Brussels)
Belgium
Directed by Vincent Lannoo
Produced by Dadowsky Film
Rue De Belgrade 13
1190 Forest (Brussels)
Belgium
This
film is a mockumentary about the experimental pedagogical methods of a
megalomaniacal acting teacher at a Belgian theatre school. Pierre (Pierre
Lekeux) terrorises his vulnerable students using a winning mix of verbal abuse
and sexual harassment under the guise of his radical and innovative "Open
Door Teaching" approach. His questionable practices are initially
tolerated by the conservatory's staff and students because of Pierre's
international acclaim as a teacher, but when he is caught on camera
incontrovertibly crossing the line with a student, his supporters begin to turn
away from him. That the majority of the film centres around this irredeemably
unpleasant character makes Strass already quite difficult to watch. Add to this
an unstructured improvised dialogue that all too often degenerates into
petulant yelling matches and a glib, facile commentary about the ethics of
documentary filmmaking that seems tacked-on in a vain attempt to lend some
deeper meaning to the piece, and Strass becomes almost unbearable to sit
through. Brief respite from this torrent of abuse comes occasionally in the
form of Jerome (Jerome le Maire) as a student who is openly critical of Pierre
from early on, and Lionel (Lionel Bourguet) as another teacher at the school
who wants nothing to do with his colleague's twisted approach or the
documentary that seeks to immortalise it. Unfortunately, the bright presence of
these two and the voices of reason they represent are woefully underused in the
film.
Can u suggest more recent movie or film that is using this method? the handheld technique i mean. thankx.
ReplyDeleteThis filmmaking technique actually end on June 2002.Only the first 31 certified movies can consider under Dogme95. But as we can see nowaday a lot of films are using handheld camera,however it still cannot consider as Dogme95 because some of them actually din't fufill the ten rules of Dogme95.But for your information,you can check on the "Devil Inside" by Director William Brent Bell. This movie is using documentary style which centers on a young woman’s journey to find the truth about her mother, who allegedly killed three people during her own exorcism twenty years earlier.Hope u like it.
ReplyDeletePersonally what do you think is the best movie to represent Dogme 95? Why.
ReplyDeleteLenny.
your background really make it very difficult to read, maybe try a simple and plain background?
ReplyDeleteryan
Could you elaborate more on the films and maybe give a few critics on them because just putting the summary there for each film feels very surface level and does not talk about the unique elements in each film
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