Lars Von Trier: Look ma, no cameraman!

The director was using a new process, "developed with the intention of limiting human influence", which he has called Automavision. This entails choosing the best possible fixed camera position and then allowing a computer to choose when to tilt, pan or zoom. "For a long time, my films have been handheld," he explains. "That has to do with the fact that I am a control freak. With Automavision, the technique was that I would frame the picture first and then push a button on the computer. I was not in control – the computer was in control."

To quote Tim Robbins in The Player, "Now if we can just get rid of those actors and directors, we'd be on to something."