07/02/2013 - Main TV partner Arte will broadcast the project simultaneously in 3D and 2D during 2014

Following the success of his Oscar-nominated 3D dance film Pina [+see also:
trailer
interview: Wim Wenders
film profile], Wim Wenders is going to produce the international 3D television series Cathedrals of Culture, which will use visionary storytelling to explore how buildings reflect our culture and mirror our society. With his production outfit Neue Road Movies, Wenders will act as an executive producer and direct one of the six episodes.

Each of the filmmakers will shoot at one building they have chosen. While Wender‘s episode will take place at the Berlin Philharmonic, Danish director Michael Madsen chose the Halden Prison in Norway, Austrian film-maker Michael Glawogger the National Library in St. Petersburg and James Marsh the St. Pancras Railway Station in London. The approach is to explore the architectural space and social context of buildings, creating an unprecedented immersive experience for the audience. The stereographer on this production is Joséphine Derobe, the daughter of the late Alain Derobe who worked with Wenders on Pina.

The six episodes will each last 30 minutes. The co-production partners for this German-Danish-French co-production are Rundfunk Berlin-Brandenburg (RBB), Final Cut for Real in Copenhagen and Les Films d’Ici 2 in Paris. Sales company Cinephil pre-sold the ground-breaking 3D series to nine territories. In Germany, main TV partner Arte will broadcast Cathedrals of Culure simultaneously in 3D and in 2D in 2014. Further buyers are the Danish Broadcasting Coporation, Sky 3D in Italy, Canal Plus in Spain and Poland, RTV Slovenija, RTVS in Slovakia, YES in Israel and SBS in Australia.