On this essay I will be focusing on Lars Von Trier background and biography. I will then list some of his major contributions to the art work, and his most famous works of art. I will include some interesting facts that have influenced him throughout his life and which I thought were important for his development as a filmmaker. Finally I will conclude the essay with my personal opinion of his character and overall art work.
Von Trier was born in Copenhagen, Denmark in April 1956. He graduated from the Danish Film School in 1956, where he received his fist award for the “Best Film” for his short film “images of a relief”. After he graduated he also worked in collaboration with many other filmmakers, one of them known as Dogma 95 where him an the crew agreed on following crazy rules, such as using only hand held cameras.
He is also known as a revolutionist and out of the ordinary kind of guy. For this he was declared “persona non grata” at the 2011 Cannes Film Festival after claiming to understand Hitler and joking about being a Nazi. After doing some research I found out that this might have been because he has gone through a lot in the past. For example his mother right before death confessed that his father was not Mr. Trier but rather her employer. Her excuse was simply because he wanted to have a son with creative genes. Another out of the ordinary work that he did, and that at the same time he managed to be very successful at was the establishing of the world’s first mainstream studio that produced pornography for women. According to an article on Dazeddiital.com, Larz was raised as a nudist and we would spend many childhood summers at nudist camps where I assumed was where he got the inspiration from. At the studio he ...
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...al media work has influenced many other artists around the world, not just because his work is highly recognized among others, but because his ability to work against many odds and still be one of the top filmmakers in the world.
Quote: “Basically, I am afraid of everything in life, except film making”.
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Roxborough, Scott. September 20, 2012. Charlotte Gainsbourg and Shia LaBeouf Talk Lars Von Trier’s Nymphomaniac. < http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/charlotte-gainsbourg-shia-labeouf-talk-372260>
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Dyer, Richard. “At Work Again, he and John Williams Exalt in their Admiring of 24 Years.” Boston Globe 24 Feb. 1998: 4/13/99 http://www.multimania.com/spielbrg
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