Berlin Film Festival to feature 3D films
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The 2011 Berlin International Film Festival will feature 3D films to celebrate the potential of the format since its recent revival in Hollywood.
The 61st festival will see the debuts of five films, and will also feature a 3D animation, according to the director of the festival, Dieter Kosslick.
“There will be many new filmmakers, many female directors … and technical novelties that we hadn’t ever shown before at the Berlinale.”
Amongst these technical novelties is of course 3D, with three films in the tridimensional format set to show at the festival in Germany.
Kosslick believes that 3D however shouldn’t be confined to the mainstream Hollywood productions:
“These three movies show that you can really play around with 3D in arthouse film… We wanted to take on new people and not just bet on the safe horse.”
3D will benefit massively from uptake in the indie film world, with the credibility of the format still very much up in the air given its tendency to predominantly bring poor films into the third dimension.
There is no reason that indie cinema, artistically, can’t use 3D, but financially it may prove a problem given the increased cost of producing a film in 3D.
Hopefully the Berlin International Film Festival will prove a good expose for 3D indie films and there will be more to come in the coming months and years. Our only hope is that Lars Von Trier won’t see fit to use the format, or it could all get very ugly indeed…
The 61st festival will see the debuts of five films, and will also feature a 3D animation, according to the director of the festival, Dieter Kosslick.
“There will be many new filmmakers, many female directors … and technical novelties that we hadn’t ever shown before at the Berlinale.”
Amongst these technical novelties is of course 3D, with three films in the tridimensional format set to show at the festival in Germany.
Kosslick believes that 3D however shouldn’t be confined to the mainstream Hollywood productions:
“These three movies show that you can really play around with 3D in arthouse film… We wanted to take on new people and not just bet on the safe horse.”
3D will benefit massively from uptake in the indie film world, with the credibility of the format still very much up in the air given its tendency to predominantly bring poor films into the third dimension.
There is no reason that indie cinema, artistically, can’t use 3D, but financially it may prove a problem given the increased cost of producing a film in 3D.
Hopefully the Berlin International Film Festival will prove a good expose for 3D indie films and there will be more to come in the coming months and years. Our only hope is that Lars Von Trier won’t see fit to use the format, or it could all get very ugly indeed…