LARS VON TRIER AND DOGMA 95
23 April 2007. - www.skandinavhaz.hu

Meeting with Peter Schepelern, biographer of Lars von Trier and with Jesper Jargil, director of photography of Idiots /Idioterne/

Film-workshop organized by the Royal Danish Embassy, the Scandinavian Workshop of Eötvös József Collégium of ELTE and Műcsarnok
Location: Műcsarnok, Törley Terem
Budapest, Dózsa György út 37.
Time: 4. May, Friday 10:00 am – 03:00 pm
5. May, Saturday 10:00 am - 02:00 pm

The talks are led by Tamás Liszka film critic and Réka Szalkai translator of poetic works, critic
The language of the program is English.
Information: Adrienne Szöllősi, Eötvös J. Collégium, leader of the workshop 30/272 4847

From the beginning of the ’90s name of Las von Trier has kept appearing more and more frequently outside the borders of Denmark, too.  The film director together with his colleague, Thomas Vinterberg announced the formation of Dogma95 group on an international film symposium in 1995. Their aim was to save the over-manipulated, declining film art. They proclaimed so called vow of chastity which was summed up in ten points, „commandments”. Nevertheless, the avant-garde and sometimes bizarre rules shake up film art. They reject films with foreseeable dramaturgy and declare that films must not deceive audience.

First professionals considered „ vow of chastity” a pleasing joke, but it turned out soon it was more than reformative extravagance of some young filmmakers.

What is Dogma95 in reality, who joined it, to what extent can the „ten commandments” what were the reactions of film trade? Where is the tolerance level of reception? Such questions are to be answered at the talks and the audience is encouraged to play an active role in the program. The werkfilm of Idiots and the premier of a biographic film of Lars von Trier will also be projected.