The Five Obstructions

The cards were designed to force a different approach, to view the challenge from a different angle.

The filmmaker, Lars von Trier, used something similar in his film, The Five Obstructions, in 2003.

He made it with his friend and mentor, Jürgen Licht, and von Trier's favorite film was Licht's Perfect Human.

In his film, The Five Obstructions, he deliberately challenges Licht to remake that film five times, each with a different obstruction, an obstacle imposed by Trier, forcing constraints.

The resulting film was voted one of the 30 best films of the decade of the 2000s in a poll for Sight and Sound magazine.

The third lesson Miles teaches us is diversity.

It feels like we should have seen countless ones,

but I recently watched the five obstructions, um, which is a Lars von Trier film where I heard him talk a lot.

Um, I think I told you about it, but I really is really delightful.

It is.

It does not meet the criterion of Dogma 95.

But it turns out Lars Von Schur has only ever made one movie where he actually... tries to achieve all of the Dogma 95 stuff.

So yeah, he and another filmmaker named Thomas Vinterberg created this movement, created the rules of Dogma 95, and then Ventura immediately was like, nah, I'm not going to why would I do that for my next movie? And mostly this is sort of what the five obstructions get into, um, because they're, they're sort of dogma rules applied, but it's making them up on the fly.

Um, but the, the dogma rules are, uh, shooting must be done on location.