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Cinema

The aspiration to the full
submergence into the
screen action led to the
use of the virtual reality
technology in the cinema
at last

on the spherical screen (IMAX Dome / OMNIMAX), in 3D cinema. The auteur films are distinguished by more difficult
technology with the usage of the polarisation method (IMAX language (they quite often declare the return to the aesthetics of
3D), special effects increasing the presence effect (IMAX the silent and black-and-white cinematography) as well as the
4DX), and film making with the cadre overfrequency (48 deliberate denial of spectacularity, not striving to become a part of
cadres per second) for more natural image (IMAX HD). the popular culture. It does not mean at all that the auteur films do
The aspiration to the full submergence into the screen not apply new technology; however, its choice is always stipulated
action led to the use of the virtual reality technology in the by the selected stylistics and content. In this case, the film making
cinema at last. Films appeared with the vision of 360 degrees goal is the author’s self-expression and his/her ideas, not viewers’
which one can watch applying special glasses or a helmet. This needs, that frequently doom a movie to the failure in the film
technology, emerged in videogames, still has got its limits service. Meanwhile the very films where the expressive means are
and requires the revision of principles in video-shooting, film submitted to the director’s idea, not vice versa, as a rule, become
editing, and so on. It means the modernisation of the cinema the world cinema classics and greatly imprint in its history.
language, aesthetics, and content, which is the consequence of The polarisation of the auteur and commercial cinema is seen
each technological revolution. as the natural and logical sequence of the disbalance between
Thus, the technical opportunities development made it intangible creative and material technical elements in this
possible to embody the most dared fantasies up to the creation art. However, each film resulted in the synthesis of these two
of the alternative virtual reality in the modern cinematograph. components and lets us believe that the progress of the technical
On the one hand, the involvement of stunt actors into shootings, thought in the cinematograph will be applied not only to the
the usage of special effects and computer graphics contributes to creation of impressive visual images but also to the expression of
the cinema development as a kind of art. On the other hand, it new ideas. It will give a chance to repeat old truisms with a new
caused the cinema language simplification and the metaphors cinema language.
disappearance paradoxically. The dominance of the material
film component over the content one ended up in the action Literature:
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