Leo Goldsmith at The Current:
“Today a technological storm is raging, the result of which will be the ultimate democratization of the cinema.” So reads one of the many pronouncements of Dogme 95’s opening salvo—a manifesto that the movement’s cofounder, Lars von Trier, distributed on red paper to the attendees of a Paris conference on cinema’s first hundred years in 1995.
At that moment, the digital video camera was rapidly proliferating around the globe, penetrating into every crevice of contemporary life. No longer just a tool for recording America’s funniest home videos, soon this technology would be inescapable: everything from car dashboards to ATMs to nurseries to the interior of your large intestine would be outfitted with tiny cameras that could record continuously. By the turn of the millennium, this loose Danish film collective would produce its first handful of feature films in the format, and they would find kin at the opposite end of the film industry in the surprise blockbuster The Blair Witch Project (1999).
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