The Film Movement Against Film Scoring

Film scoring is usually assumed to be one of a filmmaker's strongest tools, so what happens when a film movement like Dogme 95 bans film scoring?
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Founded in 1995 by Danish filmmakers Thomas Vinterberg and Lars von Trier, the Dogme/Dogma 95 movement was an avant-garde film movement that was based upon the Dogme 95 manifesto, which stipulated, amongst other things like filming with a handheld camera, that music could not be produced apart from the images. How, therefore, did music manifest itself in these films? What creative ways did directors utilise to get music into their films? How does the lack of music impact the finished products? Why ban music in the first place? These questions are all tackled in this video.
Against Film Scoring
The Film Movement Against Film Scoring
Dogme 95 Analysis
How Dogme 95 Uses Music
The Films Without Music

[@cameronhughes9707]

As a highly trained classical musician I wholeheartedly believe more movies need LESS music, or none at all. If you ho back and watch a film like 12 Angry Men, the tension in the silence is so profound. Modern movie makers would put some stupid score in and TELL us there is tension, music in films is really show don’t tell which interrupts in the realism of the shot imo.
Now, the comment above is definitely dependent on genre

[@caetano1998]

Yeah in 12 angry men it works so well because it is a very realistc movie

[@sebfleebee]

No country for old men is another film with no music, it's also one of the most tense films of all time!

[@AlbertGenower]

I think the Dogme movement is an intentional overcorrection of this symptom. Music can and does enhance what's happening onscreen, but it doesn't automatically make it better, and it's the careless imposition of music over scenes that would be better without it that is so frustrating.

[@vtenen]

Many thanks for covering this, so happy for a subject so close to my heart to be remembered

[@AlbertGenower]

Glad you enjoyed :)

[@redinkcinema]

what a great topic, a great vid and a great channel. hope u grow bigger, cause ur videos definetly deserve so!

[@AlbertGenower]

Thank you! Glad you enjoyed :)

[@artbydhroov5527]

So underrated, keep up the good work bro

[@AlbertGenower]

Thank you :)

[@PIECRUST27]

I like how well written and excuted this idea is.

[@AlbertGenower]

Thank you :)

[@resurrectionist1]

Here's the fallacy with the Dogma's manifesto on music...if a score is cheap manipulation then so is cinematography and editing. Music is just one of the many tools to craft a compelling narrative and if you can use the camera and the cut to do so, then why not music? Why not just have the camera in the wide and just shoot everything in one static frame with no cuts, no music, no nothing...hell if we take this to its logical extreme then even acting is cheap manipulation.
I respect the Dogma 95 movement for being the pioneers or shooting films digitally and being at the forefront of the digital camera revolution, but their dislike of a score is strange.

[@AlbertGenower]

There's certainly some truth to this - but I don't think Vinterberg or von Trier would disagree with you. The primary reason (as Vinterberg outlines in both the 2015 and 2016 interviews in the sources linked in the description) for the rules being chosen was that it was restriction for restriction's sake. They drew a very arbitrary line about what was, and what wasn't allowed - true. But they weren't pretending otherwise. The decision to pick some restrictions came first, and once that was done, they picked things that would push their films towards 'realism' - not necessarily with the goal of eliminating all manipulation from their films.

[@nmeau]

Ten years from now the public will be utterly saturated with splendid but AI generated film. I foresee a revival of Dogme 95 in the next generation of film makers.