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Thesis Info

Thesis Title: Beyond third dimension: Montage superposition of volumetric images in 3x3D

Department / Discipline: Programa de Pós-Graduação em Comunicação Mestrado e Doutorado

Abstract: 200-500 words: The superposition of images in multilayers is a common montage feature used since the beginning of cinema, almost always as a camouflage effect for building images impossible to register with a mere camera, in a single shot. Rare when seen in images where it is noticeable, this effect is an even greater exception when organized as multi-screens. In the 3x3D film (France / Portugal, 2013), all the variations of montage in superposed images are used, especially in 3D. Composed of three segments, directed, in the order of montage, by Peter Greenaway, Edgar Pêra and Jean-Luc Godard, the film explores images in three dimensions with a proposal for aesthetic experimentation. The aim of this research is to investigate the eventual novelty of this procedure, by the form and the concept, from a research of the fictional 3D filmed cinematographic production - excluding, therefore, animations - shown in festivals and commercial exhibition circuit. As an additional contribution, the experimental and expanded cinemas, pre-cinema and other forms of visual art, static or in motion, are examined. The analysis should indicate how the film adds complexity, by means of montage, to the construction of superimposed images in layers, created to be visually perceptible as such, and to the three-dimensional film image. Thus, one can observe the relation of 3D in contemporary audiovisual images and estimate its possible evolution.