Dogmen.
/ˈdɒɡmə/, U.S. /ˈdɔɡmə/, /ˈdɑɡmə/ Film.
A set of guidelines intended to produce simpler, more naturalistic films, unembellished by elaborate cinematography or contrived plots. Also: the group of filmmakers following such guidelines, or this approach, considered as a school or movement. Also more fully Dogme 95. Frequently attributive.The guidelines, consisting of ten rules called The Vow of Chastity, were originally formulated on 13 March 1995 in Copenhagen, Denmark, by a group of Danish film directors comprising Søren Kragh-Jacobsen, Kristian Levring, Thomas Vinterberg, and Lars von Trier.
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1995 N. Mailer Let. Dec. in Sel. Lett. (2014) 672 To the degree that I understand Dogma 95, its filmic principles are fulfilled for the most part by this picture.
1998 Independent 19 Nov. ii. 13/1 They invented the 10 points of what a Dogme film had to be... It was to be as no frills as a Baltic kirk on a craggy hinterland of the Danish psyche.
2000 N.Y. Times Mag. 30 Apr. 44/1 There aren't any tracking shots or crane shots in ‘The Idiots’ because, according to Dogma's Vow of Chastity, the camera can only be hand-held.
2003 Film Comment May–June 14/3 A rerun..demonstrated..just how ahead of its time it was (not least in its anticipation of the Danish Dogme movement).
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, November 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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