[hau]

>The film must be shot where the narrative takes place.

This one really stands out by exculding whole genres and not really adding anything interesting to work around.

[brazzy]

I don't think it's meant as a constraint to be worked around, but as a guardrail against being inauthentic.

And it excludes a lot less than its inspiration Dogme 95, which has as one rule "Genre movies are not acceptable."

[pjc50]

> "Genre movies are not acceptable."

I find that hilarious, like proclaiming that only other people have an ethnicity or an accent. Because of course Dogme is a genre of its own.

[wl]

Perhaps Dogme 95/Dogma 25 films are in a genre of their own, but they're not "genre movies." People make the same argument with "literary fiction"/"non-genre fiction" vs "genre fiction." The terms have meaning whether or not you want to acknowledge it.

[brookst]

Dogme is more of a methodology than genre. Genre usually means settings and tropes, like scifi or horror or superhero.

Though I’d argue that rom-com, period pieces, and biopics also are “genre”, at least to the extent a particular movie just paints by numbers within those styles.

[viccis]

Makes sense because it's similar to one of the ones from Dogme95 which explicitly excluded genre files.

[dfxm12]

That's ok. The goal is not for every film to fit into this criteria.

[irdc]

Which genres would that be?

One could also argue that certain genres simply won't ever work as an arthouse movie.

[RobotToaster]

> Which genres would that be?

Space opera, high fantasy and bangsian fantasy are three that come to mind.

[irdc]

I could see bangsian fantasy work if the afterlife were to be located on earth (which opens up some narrative possibilities, though they're a bit unoriginal). The other two are predicated upon portraying their locations inauthentically, which conflicts with the rules Dogme 25 strives to follow.

[coldtea]

Exluding them is for the better... we got more than enough

[aetherspawn]

It kind of protects against low budget sci-fi I guess, which could be a net good thing.

Under the rules you could attempt to shoot Resident Alien, but not Star Trek.

[irdc]

I'm thinking you could shoot an awesome sci-fi thriller under these rules. Even one that includes space travel. Just don't have any of the narrative take place in space: have only one character off-planet and have them communicate via radio.

[jmusall]

I've seen good, low-budget indie sci-fi short films that would presumably meet all of the Dogma 25 rules. So I think it doesn't protect against this category of films and neither would that be a good thing anyways. It just requires creative solutions if you want to e.g. portrait space travel.