Lars Von Trier, born in 1953, is likely the most ambitious and visually distinctive Danish director. He attracted international attention with his first feature, The Element of Crime (1984), and was one of the developers of the movement Dogma’95, which approaches cinema in a simple, naturalistic manner. His film Dancer in the Dark (2000) was one of the first ones to ever be fully digitally captured, and earned him a Palme d’Or at Cannes. Von Trier is equally well-known for films such as Melancholia (2011), Nymphomaniac – Vol. I, Vol. II (2013) and, more recently, The House that Jack Built (2018), all films he not only directed, but also wrote.