Get A Life

The film complies with the rules of “dogumentarism”, as drafted by Lars von Trier. If Dogme 95 aimed at transforming the narration of fiction cinema, the next codex is looking to purge documentary filmmaking from what makes it unreliable and untruthful. At the outset of the film, the director has to defend its content: Michale Kling warns the viewers of the horrifying images that render the situation in a children’s hospital in upper Nigeria, where patients with grave gangrenous illnesses are treated. The combination of third world poverty and structural experiment, however, results in an unsettling of ethical discourse…