Under the charges, Burge could have been subject to 40 years in prison for the two obstruction counts and five years on the perjury count.
Reliable process operation requires that these two cohesive obstructions be avoided to achieve proper flow of bulk materials through process equipment.
So, if "The Five Obstructions" was a game, who, in Mr. Leth's opinion, was the winner?
As perverse and playful as Mr. von Trier's features ("Dancer in the Dark," "Dogville"), "The Five Obstructions" is only superficially a formal exercise.
The results of this intricate and perverse game are on display in "The Five Obstructions," a feature-length film that opens Wednesday at Film Forum in New York.
Mr. Leth said that "The Five Obstructions" helped Mr. von Trier too: "He's famous for being arrogant and rejecting people, and there are a lot of myths about him.
In The Five Obstructions he challenges one of his heroes, Danish documentarian Jørgen Leth, to remake his 12-minute 1967 anthropological study The Perfect Human five times, under certain restrictions.
It was used on Linklater's hallucinatory fantasy Waking Life and in one section of The Five Obstructions by Lars von Trier and Jorgen Leth, but the effects here are much more subdued: less freaky, less spacey - in keeping with the downbeat mood.
This technique was inspired by The Five Obstructions, a 2003 experimental documentary directed by Lars Von Trier and Jørgen Leth, which Daniels watched at the suggestion of actor Paul Schneider.
This distinguishing technique was inspired by The Five Obstructions, a 2003 documentary by Lars von Trier and Jørgen Leth, which Daniels watched at the suggestion of actor Paul Schneider.
