Weber--sin and capital

[David Morris]

>From: Terrance <lycidas2 at earthlink.net>
>
>http://www.tvropa.com/tvropa1.2/film/dogme95/index.htm

This site seems as if it were written by VL's 24fps:

"Today a technological storm is raging, the result of which will be the 
ultimate democratisation of the cinema. For the first time, anyone can make 
movies. But the more accessible the media becomes, the more important the 
avant-garde, It is no accident that the phrase “avant-garde” has military 
connotations. Discipline is the answer ... we must put our films into 
uniform, because the individual film will be decadent by definition!

DOGME 95 counters the individual film by the principle of presenting an 
indisputable set of rules known as THE VOW OF CHASTITY.
In 1960 enough was enough! The movie had been cosmeticised to death, they 
said; yet since then the use of cosmetics has exploded.
The “supreme” task of the decadent film-makers is to fool the audience. Is 
that what we are so proud of? Is that what the “100 years” have brought us? 
Illusions via which emotions can be communicated? ... By the individual 
artist’s free choice of trickery?

Predictability (dramaturgy) has become the golden calf around which we 
dance. Having the characters’ inner lives justify the plot is too 
complicated, and not “high art”. As never before, the superficial action and 
the superficial movie are receiving all the praise.
The result is barren. An illusion of pathos and an illusion of love.

To DOGME 95 the movie is not illusion!
Today a technological storm is raging of which the result is the elevation 
of cosmetics to God. By using new technology anyone at any time can wash the 
last grains of truth away in the deadly embrace of sensation. The illusions 
are everything the movie can hide behind.

DOGME 95 counters the film of illusion by the presentation of an 
indisputable set of rules known as THE VOW OF CHASTITY."



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