Dogme 95

Dogme 95 was a filmmaking movement launched in Copenhagen by four Danish directors, Lars von Trier, Thomas Vinterberg, Kristian Levring and Søren Kragh-Jacobsen. It was a reaction against what they saw as the artificiality and excess of big-budget cinema, with its special effects and technology. They set out a Vow of Chastity, with a set of strict rules: films had to be shot on location with handheld cameras, in natural light, without added music or props, and without genre conventions or credited directors. The first Dogme films, Vinterberg's The Celebration and von Trier's The Idiots, were released in 1998 and attracted international attention. Though the directors themselves later moved on, the movement influenced low-budget cinema.

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