Our week six studios focuses on the 3D cinema and the exploded frame. The Lumiere brothers had been known for experimenting with 3D cameras and cinematography. The first ever public screening of a 3D cinema was in 1922 with a film called The Power of Love. But the future becomes the present in a blink of an eye even since the 1950s. 3D films got popular then until during 1989 and on with films such as Back to the Future as well as Jaws but the popularity eventually died. 3D framing acts as the invisibility of style where as it was introduced, made popular and that trend was the shelved to be applied again even in the recent contemporary world of the cinema. These new introduction of new kinds of cinema is a progression within its history. Just like the French New Wave and the New Hollywood that eventually died, even if it’s invisibility of style remains, because they themselves causes the new emerging genres and the Blockbuster. Each film style influence each newer ones and inspire new younger directors. To link these shifts to 3D as Dan mentioned, “all cinema is about optical perception and our comprehension of space” and these different cinematic styles are evolving towards the 3D experience that had shifted as a result of experimentation of new technologies and thinking outside the box.

What had blew my mind about this week’s inspirations is the screening of partly documentary-short narrative feature This is Not a Film by Jafar Panahi. With all the restrictions and government banning him to ever direct a movie or even write his films and internet websites blocked, he opened my mind to a whole new dimension of thinking outside the box. “What if when we can’t show a film, we tell a film?” Panahi demonstrated his idea of an unmade film in this piece using his living room and tape to “draw” the set, acting out his characters and describing his screen play. What he had done not only inspire me as a media practitioner but motivate me to be unique as films within the cinema is evolving and where cinema is heading.