Adding a new dimension

Trailblazing Irish filmmaker Catherine Owens tells Alan O’Riordan why 3D is here to stay

REMEMBER Glee 3D, Transformers: Dark Side of the Moon, and Jackass 3D? Of course you don’t. But they and other movies like them are responsible for the bad press that so quickly attached itself to 3D films, seemingly only minutes after James Cameron had appeared to make them respectable again.

The great Hollywood cash-in is something that irks another 3D trailblazer, Irish filmmaker Catherine Owens, who was behind another milestone of the form, 2006’s U2 3D, and has now directed something completely different, Sculpting Space, a documentary about the post-Riverdance reinvention of the English-born dancer Colin Dunne.