Word: imax
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...medium of film have resulted in artists whose creativity includes new way of using celluloid Of these artists. Stan Brakhage (whose work is currently in a retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art in New York) is the fore runner. Brakhage hand-paints 8, 16, 35 mm and Imax film stock sometimes using a technique which lets him paste translucent objects onto the film. Brakhage seems to tap into a deep level of emotion by projecting his tiny, beautiful swirls of color onto the large screen. The breathless tension of these intimate films reveals the influence of Davis work...
...been all uphill ever since. In 1986 another MacCready creation, perhaps his most remarkable, swooped high over Death Valley while being photographed for the Smithsonian Institution's IMAX film On the Wing. It was an awesomely realistic, radio-controlled, computer-brained, wing-flapping replica of the largest creature ever to have flown, the pterodactyl, which vanished with its dinosaur cousins some 65 million years...
...current, an LCD lens can instantly switch from being essentially transparent to being totally opaque -- like an efficient electronic shutter. Controlled by an infrared signal broadcast from the projection booth, the goggles' left and right lenses open and close 24 times a second, in synchronization with a pair of Imax projectors showing first the left-eye view and then the right-eye view of any scene. The 3-D effect is unusually crisp because the projectors are extremely stable, the separation of right- and left-eye views is precise, and the movie frames are ten times as large as those...
...plane of the screen, sending conflicting depth cues to the brain and destroying the 3-D illusion. The advantage of the wraparound Solido theater is that the edges of the screen are beyond the audience's field of view. "The screen seems to disappear in the peripheral vision," says Imax producer Roman Kroitor. "The picture stays right there; you can reach out and touch...
...these the makings of another '50s-style 3-D movie boom? Probably not. The backlist of conventional 3-D films is still pretty limited, and titles like It Came from Outer Space and Friday the 13th Part 3 have not improved with age. Imax Systems has installed a 3-D theater in Vancouver and has plans to build two more, in Galveston, Texas, and Taiwan, but there are no plans yet to put them in typical suburban malls. Moreover, as glorious as the new technology may seem today, it is likely to be perceived by an increasingly jaded public...