Wenders hails 3D as 'ideal tool' for documentaries

Wim Wenders gave this interview to AFP while he was editing his latest movie "Pina".

The film will premiere at the Berlinale film festival next Sunday 13 February!
I was completely thrilled by the trailer for "Pina" (http://www.wim-wenders.com). Can't wait to hear the first reactions from the premiere. This is a film I will definitely go see in 3D.

Wim Wenders hails 3D as 'ideal tool' for documentaries:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C0YO0O880qA

"The film was really conceived as a road movie where I would accompany Pina to Brazil, to Egypt, to Turkey. With her plays, to all sorts of foreign places. And then when she was gone, obviously, that didn't matter anymore.

So the concept of the film had to change drastically. It had to become a film about the work. And it's a very, very different thing now than what we would have done together, obviously.

I finished shooting now. We shot for a long time. And I'm in the middle of editing and I'm right now actually quite eager to go back to my editing room, as I'm thinking about it. 'Cause it will be a long process. It's very demanding. And it is such a new thing to do a documentary in 3D.

It could very well be that 3D started on the wrong leg because it only appeared for most of us, for all of us, in the form of animation movies and big spectaculum. I think a lot of people think that is what it can do.

But I think in the future it will be the ideal tool for documentary film-makers. I'm convinced that 3D will open up a big window for documentary film-makers. Maybe in the same way that 10, 15 years ago digital technology helped to reanimate the documentary genre. Because documentaries were dead and it was only digital technology that allowed documentary to come back into the theatre."

There is also a french version of the interview
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MPifmBuf24I&NR=1&feature=fvwp