Cineclub
The Dogme Manifesto has 10 rules that help directors explore new creative possibilities based on tough technical restrictions. Its innovative approach to cinema has created a following around the world where hand-held camera, natural lighting, improvisation and unity of time, place and action have ‘liberated’ filmmakers from cliché and convention.
It all began when Lars von Trier asked Thomas Vinterberg if he wanted to “start a new wave with him”. Together with Soren Kragh Jacobsen and Kristian Levring they created the Dogme brotherhood – missionaries for the message of back-to-basics filmmaking. They wanted to remove superficial action, props, music and other tricks-of-the-trade to “force the truth out of characters and settings”.
To receive the Dogme Certificate a film must follow the 10 rules or ‘commandments’ set out by the Dogme Manifesto. The reason for these constraints was to help filmmakers think around them, find new and original ways of tackling scenes rather than relying on old cliches or ‘fixing it’ in post production with music or special effects.
Cineclub follows Dogme in this ‘creativity of constraints’. But just as Dogme filmmakers can make a ‘confession’ if they break one of the rules, so can Cineclub filmmakers submit a ‘justification’.
Paying homage to filmmakers and film movements
Lars von Trier
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