Jean-Luc Godard, of course, got there before Trier in his film Slow Motion, his version of Fellini's 8 1/2. Slow Motion explores the nuts and bolts of film making, demolishing the Third Wall, as characters ask where is the background music coming from?
In the Icelandic film Woman at War, director Benedikt Erlingsson, nods to the Dogma, by taking a three piece band out into the wilds of the Icelandic countryside, along with a singing trio in full Icelandic costume, filming them often out of focus, in the background of the action.
Yet Erlingsson's film is the most realistic portrait of the surveillance society since Terry Gilliam's Brazil.
Jonathan Brind