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Dogme 95 banned artificial lighting and effects

A group of Danish directors wrote ten rules for making films plainly In 1995 Lars von Trier and Thomas Vinterberg drew up a vow of chastity for filmmakers, banning studio sets, artificial lighting, optical effects, genre plots and the director's name in the credits. Films had to be shot on location with handheld cameras and direct sound. The rules were meant to strip away polish, and few directors followed them exactly. It sits in Mondo's movies & tv collection, one of 200 facts that each trace back to the reference below.

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Where does this come from, and can I check it?: A group of Danish directors wrote ten rules for making films plainly. The figure is taken from BFI, which is linked in full on this page. Every fact on Mondo Knows names its source rather than repeating an unsourced claim.
Is this really a movies & tv fact?: Yes. It sits on the Movies & TV shelf, one of 2,600 sourced facts grouped into space, animals, the human body, history, science and more. Category pages collect every fact in the same field.
What else can I read about it?: The links under the fact point to a quiz, game, puzzle or calculator on the same subject, and the shelf below shows related facts. The wording here is original, and quoted phrases are marked as quotations.