German filmmmaker Wim Wenders (Paris, Texas , Buena Vista Social Club) recently shot a documentary about legendary choreographer Pina Bausch and described 3d as “an ideal tool for documentary filmmakers”.

“I finished shooting now and I am in the middle of editing. It will be a long process. It is such a new thing to do a documentary in 3D”, Wenders told AFP in an interview during the Transylvania International Film Festival (TIFF) in Romania.

Though Pina Bausch passed away before filming was completed, Wenders was able to work with the grande dame’s dance ensemble Tanztheather in Germany, crafting a film about dance choreography and the use of space.

But shooting in 3D provided its own set of problems: “You have to forget everything you know about filmmaking. Because you have to organise the shots and the whole process in a very different way”.

Wenders remains bullish on the influence stereo filmmaking will have on the documentary genre comparing it to the effects HD and digital had 15 years prior.

“I think that 3D will do the same. In the future, every documentary will be shot that way.”

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