i want to revive an old filmmaking movement from the 90s
I'm sure a lot of people have been thinking it, but we really need a Dogma 95 revival.
Now, more than ever. You've seen the shit they've put on the screens, right?
Everyone has a camera on their phone these days, and what do people use it for? Instagram Reels and TikToks? God forbid, YouTube Shorts? Yech.
I feel like Joel Haver should be a lesson to everyone that they can make films. He proves that audiences aren't as dumb as studios think, and that you can actually make a feature film with less than $4000 dollars. Both tasks used to be considered impossible in the days of physical film, so why don't people take advantage of it?
I think I might attempt something ambitious for someone who mostly never released a live action film (neither has Thomas Vinterburg before he co-created Dogma 95 with Lars Von Trier). I would like to create a filmmaking project that anyone could do with a phone or a video camera they already have. If its catalogue gets to a decent size, then I'd like to see something that could allow no-budget filmmakers to get ambitious, and (wishful thinking incoming) studio filmmakers to learn to work with restrictions if their contract with A24/NEON ever runs out.