Premiere: A view from inside 'U23D'

If you go to see "U23D," bring your cellphone or BlackBerry and leave it turned on.

Tonight when the digitally hot-rodded and sonically amplified film played at the Eccles in Park City, one sequence had cameras sweeping above a packed stadium in Buenos Aires where U2 fans had pulled out their cellphones and cameras in the pitch dark. The effect looks something like a landing strip for a schizophrenic jumbo jet.

In the photo above, Sundance audience members are seen holding phones and cameras above their heads in sync with concert goers in Buenos Aires. It was one of many "interactive" audience moments inspired by "U23D's" digital stereoscopic feats of storytelling.

-- Sheigh Crabtree

Comments

[Ed Meyer]

3-D without glasses is coming...

http://www.slashfilm.com/2008/01/12/mark-cuban-negotiating-for-3-d-without-the-glasses/

http://www.Digital3-D.com

[Ryan]

Ed that's awesome, because I know a few people (myself included) with disorders that keeps them from seeing 3D. This is just a waste of my money with the glasses.

[Hula Girl]

Who cares? The writing and storytelling is always crap.
Beowulf. I rest my case/

[Eric Deren]

Mega-bands backed by large companies with gigantic production budgets aren't the only ones with 3D music videos...
GOLDEN, an indie rock band based out of Atlanta, has just premiered a full-color stereoscopic 3D music video of their latest single, and they are letting people view the red/cyan anaglyph version directly from their website:

http://www.goldentheband.com/3D

Of course, to watch it at home you will need special red/cyan glasses, but GOLDEN is giving those away too.

The 3D music video was produced by Atlanta-based Dzignlight Studios at a fraction of the cost of most 2D music videos... suggesting that the technology to produce quality 3D content is far more accessible than it was just a couple years ago.