3D EXPRMNTL

3D is dead, long live 3D! Whereas ten years ago 3D was still heralded as the future of cinema, many film exhibitors have by now shelved their plastic glasses. Four-eyed planeshifters need not grieve, however, for far from the multiplex, 3D continues to spark the imagination. In collaboration with KASKcinema, Art Cinema OFFoff invites you to plunge into the deep end. We present a showcase of how trailblazers have continued to embrace this technology beyond blockbusters and desperate gimmicks.

From the Lumière brothers’ 3D remake of L’arrivée d’un Train (1896, 1935) and UFOs in ChromaDepth to medical 3D photography of labia explored as landscapes, no corner of the eye is safe. Three-dimensional journeys into Victor Horta’s Barcelona garden maze and into mysterious hothouses at dawn lead on to a nocturnal Hollywood, where lush juniper trees sway trance-like in the night air. Alongside work by other red-green captains of contemporary 3D such as Blake Williams and Johann Lurf, Rainer Kohlberger dismantles stereo vision into a duel between the brain and the outside world. In the end, the pompous sea battles from Avatar 2 (2022) will seem like nothing more than a bad dream.

Program and introduction by OFFoff coordinator Ruben Demasure

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