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' A joyless sexual tantrum...' Provocation: Lars von Trier My research into the Dogme 95 Manifesto got me thinking a lot about Lars von Trier. A man who was described by Shia Labeouf as 'this generations Tarkovsky' . When I began writing about Dogme, I was most definitely a LvT apologist. I thought, 'Hey I actually kind of like Lars von Trier, people just choose to misunderstand him.' I went through this little phase of being obsessed with Lars von Trier for about a week, and then realised I'm a bit of a fake fan seeing as I'd only actually seen Melancholia. So I decided to watch Nymphomaniac Vol. I & II (I watched the directors cut of both, a total of 5+ hours of LvT time). Nymphomaniac was described by the New Yorker as 'a joyless sexual tantrum' . I read a lot of reviews before and after watching Nymphomaniac. The general consensus I gathered was the people hated LvT and that his film was a film designed solely to

Dogme 95 & The Minnesota Declaration

Dogme 95 "My supreme goal is to force the truth out of my characters and settings." What interests me about the Dogme 95 manifesto (the films it produced, and the people that produced it) is the reactive response it tends to provoke. There was lots of literature out there on the web about Dogme 95, a stark contrast to my research into Valentine de Saint-Point. Dogme 95 was a response to the CGI-blockbusters that (may have lacked artistic integrity) had huge budgets out of reach of independent filmmakers. But even saying this makes me feel uncomfortable - it feels like a too text book way to describe anything that provokes von Treir. I think people resent the manifesto, and von Trier because he makes people anxious. He makes people anxious because you never know how seriously to take him; Dogme 95 is no different. After reading out the ‘Vow of Chastity’ and manifesto in the Paris Odeon, von Trier threw red leaflets containing the manuscript into the crowd, declared he could

Manifesto

MANIFESTO THE RULES - 5 points was chosen because of my research into Rothko and Corbusier - I wanted to write a manifesto for myself because I have nothing to say about how other people should live. Giving advice is a thankless and often uncalled for task. - I wanted to effectively troubleshoot my shortcomings on the diploma. - Focus on my process. Systems Art STEFAN SAGMEISTER 'What is your typical process. that is, how do you develop an idea? How important is collaboration in your process? The process I’ve been using most often has been described by Maltese philosopher Edward DeBono, who suggests starting to think about an idea for a particular project by taking a random object as point of departure. Say, I have to design a pen, and instead of looking at all other pens and thinking about how pens are used and who my target audience is etc., I start thinking about pens using…(this is me now looking around the hotel room for a random object)…bed spreads. Ok, hotel bedspreads are…s