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Cinema

Cinema
Written almost sixty years apart, Dogma 95 and VertovÕs We: Variant of a Manifesto are both programs for making cinema. In this research we are going to compare the two documents discussing the role, function, and mission each advocates for the cinema of the future. Another important task is going to be to ask how or whether the two films: “The Idiots” and “The Man with the Movie Camera” realize these expectations. These two movies are going to provide the basis for our research because they do represent the evaluated two programs of making cinema.
First of all let’s take a look into some background details of what we are evaluating, the program called Dogma 95. Dogma was drawn up in 1995 by Danish filmmakers Lars von Trier and Thomas Vinterberg and co-signed by Soren Kragh-Jacobsen and Kristian Levring - to, in their words, “Counter certain tendencies in cinema today.” In an effort to wash them clean of predictable storylines and filmic aids, the Dogma 95 sign...

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