He is a Danish film director and screenwriter, among his work you can find films like: Breaking the waves, Dancer in the dark, Dogville, The idiots, The Kingdom I,II , Manderlay, Antichrist, etc.
The characteristic thing about Lars von Trier is that he likes to film stories that are credible, this is why he doesn't care about the use of technical stuff and visual effects. He likes to film with a style very much like “homemade videos” and this usually makes people think that he just rushed filming and didn't cared about the quality of his work; but this isn't true because it is just the style he likes in order to transmit the credible stories that are so typical of him.
He created the Dogma 95 which is a movement based in the less use of technicities, and he even adapt his films as if they were a real interview or documentals; he even includes and uses cuts between dialogues and scenes, as if they were filmed unprofessinally with a home video.
Wathching several interviews of him I noticed that he has the purpose of provoking something in the audience, in order to trigger their thoughts and make them ellaborate their own suppositions; he also dislikes giving orders to the people who collaborates with him (such as actors), because he searches for everything to go with a naturallly comunication that will be reflected in his work; he doesn't allow any preparation or rehearsel before the shoots, and some of the actors that have worked with him say that "you just enter into a room and he starts filming, you make your scene and he reacts to it; after several days shooting you are more open to act by impulse, and feel more free".
He also, with the dark humor he has, says he does't think about the audience when filming so his films can either result a catastrophe or a good work, and he just does't care about what the press may say about him 'cause he has been treated badly by it, and he even likes that.
