Biography Project

This project involves picking a name out of a hat (Lars Von Trier) and researching about his life, work and philosophy. After a good acknowledgement of the person we had to refine and use the information to produce a creative outcome. I had Lars Von Trier a Famous Danish film director and screenwriter.

I was very glad to have picked him as he had a very peculiar way of seeing the world and portraying it in his films. The reason for this was to have financial independence and to enable them to have total creative control. This company was the world's only mainstream film studio to allow hardcore sex films.

Movies I watched from him:

The Idiots

Dancer in the Dark 

Antichrist

Melancholia

Dogville (my favourite) 

He also started Dogme 95  movement with Thomas Vinterberg with 'Dogme 95 manifesto' and ' Vow of Chastity'.

Lars Von Trier believes by following these restrictions, the film can depict the truth. Show the reality.

-Filming must be done on location. (Props and sets must not be brought in)

-The sound must not be produced apart from the images or vice versa 

- Camera must be a hand-held camera. The film must not take place where the camera is standing; filming must take     place where the action takes place. 

- The film must be in colour. Special lighting is not acceptable.

- Optical work and filters are forbidden 

-Film must not contain superficial action

- Temporal and geographical alienation are forbidden 

- Genre movies are not acceptable 

- The format must be Academy 35 mm

- The director must not be credited




I decided to use his ways of filming on Halloween in order to depict the actual Halloween night in Peckham.