About MANEZH SQUARE
The MANEZH SQUARE web site
is the most recent off-shoot
of Ken Kobland's 1993 ITVS video documentary,
Footage for this tape was shot in MANEZH SQUARE,
in MOSCOW, USSR in the fall of 1990.
The demonstration,
held just outside the KREMLIN wall,
was in support of GORBACHEV and the reforms.
It was one year before
the hard-line COMMUNIST coup
which ended with the
collapse of the SOVIET state.
The image was created by capturing individual freeze-frames
from the original Hi-8mm videotape
using a Macintosh computer
and video digitizer.
The MANEZH panorama is a collage
of numerous figures taken from different moments
in the duration of the scene that were combined
into one grouping.
The entire photo-montage was then transformed
into a stereoscopic 3-D image using a
Red Channel Displacement
technique in Photoshop.
Note:
It is critical when creating 3-D,
that areas of the image
be selected and separately manipulated.
The degree of red channel displacement,
ie. how far to the left or right
the channel is shifted,
determines to some degree
the amount of perceived distance
forward or backward from the image plane.
The image plane is simply
the 'non-displaced' areas of the picture
and is seen as the actual middle ground
in the spatial separation.
(For more information about 3-D)
Here, in Manezh Square,
depth perception
becomes an
aesthetic event.
