Dutch Angle

A Dutch Angle, also known as Dutch Tilt, Oblique Angle or Canted Angle referred to, is an oblique camera angle in photography and film. It serves to give the viewer an unreal or disorienting impression. It is characterized by the skewed horizon in the image, which can be combined with a surface or point of view.

The oblique perspectives were ( The man with the camera, USSR 1929) and used in German Expressionist cinema of the 1920s, so that internationally, the term " German Angle" established particularly in avant-garde film. Because of the similarity of the word " German " to the English word " dutch " (English: Dutch) soon circulated the concept of "Dutch Angle".

Influenced by expressionist film noir of the 1940s and 1950s made ​​repeated use of this stylistic device. Better known examples include The Third Man ( UK 1949) and Touch of Evil (USA 1958).