I swear to submit to the following set of rules drawn up and confirmed by DOGMA 95:

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• Shooting must be done on location. Props and sets must not be brought in (if a particular prop is necessary for the story, a location must be chosen where this prop is to be found).
• The sound must never be produced apart from the images or vice versa. (Music must not be used unless it occurs where the scene is being shot.)
• The camera must be hand-held. Any movement or immobility attainable in the hand is permitted.
• The film must be in color. Special lighting is not acceptable. (If there is too little light for exposure the scene must be cut or a single lamp be attached to the camera.)
• Optical work and filters are forbidden.
• The film must not contain superficial action. (Murders, weapons, etc. must not occur.)
• Temporal and geographical alienation are forbidden. (That is to say that the film takes place here and now.)
• Genre movies are not acceptable.
• The film format must be Academy 35 mm.
• The director must not be credited.

Furthermore I swear as a director to refrain from personal taste! I am no longer an artist. I swear to refrain from creating a “work”, as I regard the instant as more important than the whole. My supreme goal is to force the truth out of my characters and settings. I swear to do so by all the means available and at the cost of any good taste and any aesthetic considerations.

Thus I make my VOW OF CHASTITY.

Copenhagen, Monday 13 March 1995

On behalf of DOGMA 95

Lars von Trier Thomas Vinterberg