Arquivo

A new film movement arose in Kopenhagen seven years ago. Under the name of Dogma 95, its initial milestone was a film by a Danish director Lars von Trier and his young colleague Thomas Vinterberg, Vow of Chastity. The ten commandments of the Dogma were basically: 1) to film on location, with no artificial scenery; 2) to use direct sound, with no sound track; 3) with camera on shoulder; 4) to film in color and without artificial lighting; 5) with tricks and filters prohibited; 6) not to use any superficial action such as murders, nor weapons; 7) with temporal or geographical references prohibited; 8) with films in any particularly characteristic style forbidden; 9) where films should be only 35 mm; 10) and the director receive no credits. Free Dogma examines up to what extent some directors adhered or otherwise to these postulates. In addition to Trier, Jean-Marc Barr, Lone Scherfig, and Win Wenders converse with each other by telephone. They can not see each other, but each films himself with a digital minicamera. These fragments of images have been edited according to the conversation between them, and make up Free Dogma.