Reality Through Trier's Camera
London Contemporary School
Reality Through Trier 's Camera
(BA1 - Cultural Studies)
António Branco
24/05/2012
Reality Through Trier 's Camera
A narrative is a work that describes a succession of real or fictional actions. In one simple word, it 's a story. Nowadays narrative is considered to exist in many different forms, for example as a book, song, film, television, theatre, video-games and even painting and photography. For this reason narrative now has a wide range of ways to present itself, from a more subjective to a more objective way, or from a more unrealistic to a more realistic way. From all the forms in which narrative exists, the field I have chosen for my exploration, due to my passion for it, is cinema. With the purpose to make this study a subject of my interest I searched for something in the film industry that would awake curiosity within me. Then it came to me, who better to be my target than one of the most controversial names in contemporary filmmaking, fortunately the director of one of my favorite movies, Lars von Trier, who approaches matters of Realism. Throughout this work I will be approaching von Trier methods through the object that defines cinema and makes it different from theatre. Von Trier use of the camera within his beliefs on realism, Dogme 95, and how this influences his most popular trilogy, the "Golden Heart Trilogy". In my analysis of his realistic techniques, I will be assessing to what degree von Trier’s methods are in accord with the theorizing of Andre Bazin, one of the most recognized figures in the history of realist film criticism.
Lars von Trier is perhaps most well-known as one of the key contributors to the Dogme cinema movement. Together with Thomas Vinterberg he drafted up the “Vow of Chastity”, a list of 10 rules which they intended to stick to in the production of Dogme films. They hoped that by following these regulations they would be able to break away from cliché film practice and create
Reality Through Trier 's Camera
(BA1 - Cultural Studies)
António Branco
24/05/2012
Reality Through Trier 's Camera
A narrative is a work that describes a succession of real or fictional actions. In one simple word, it 's a story. Nowadays narrative is considered to exist in many different forms, for example as a book, song, film, television, theatre, video-games and even painting and photography. For this reason narrative now has a wide range of ways to present itself, from a more subjective to a more objective way, or from a more unrealistic to a more realistic way. From all the forms in which narrative exists, the field I have chosen for my exploration, due to my passion for it, is cinema. With the purpose to make this study a subject of my interest I searched for something in the film industry that would awake curiosity within me. Then it came to me, who better to be my target than one of the most controversial names in contemporary filmmaking, fortunately the director of one of my favorite movies, Lars von Trier, who approaches matters of Realism. Throughout this work I will be approaching von Trier methods through the object that defines cinema and makes it different from theatre. Von Trier use of the camera within his beliefs on realism, Dogme 95, and how this influences his most popular trilogy, the "Golden Heart Trilogy". In my analysis of his realistic techniques, I will be assessing to what degree von Trier’s methods are in accord with the theorizing of Andre Bazin, one of the most recognized figures in the history of realist film criticism.
Lars von Trier is perhaps most well-known as one of the key contributors to the Dogme cinema movement. Together with Thomas Vinterberg he drafted up the “Vow of Chastity”, a list of 10 rules which they intended to stick to in the production of Dogme films. They hoped that by following these regulations they would be able to break away from cliché film practice and create
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