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The Dutch angle, also known as Dutch tilt, canted angle, vortex angle, or oblique angle, is a type of camera shot which involves setting the camera at an angle on its roll axis so that the shot is composed with vertical lines at an angle to the side of the frame, or so that the horizon line of the shot is not parallel with the bottom of the camera frame.[1] This produces a viewpoint akin to tilting one's head to the side.[1] In cinematography, the Dutch angle is one of many cinematic techniques often used to portray psychological uneasiness or tension in the subject being filmed.[2] The Dutch tilt is strongly associated with the German movie scene during the expressionist movement, which used the Dutch angle extensively.[1][3]  Etymology  The word "Dutch" in this context is a bastardisation of the word Deutsch, the German word for "German";[1] it is not related to the Dutch people or language.[1] It originated in the First World War, as Navy blockades made the import (and export) of movies impossible.  The "Dutch angle" is also known as a "German angle" due to its popularity in silent-era German films that popularized the shots, although one of the earliest recorded occurrences of the camera technique is to be found in the Edwin S. Porter American film Dream of a Rarebit Fiend (1906), itself based on the 1904 cartoon of the same name, already known for the use of surrealist and oblique angles in its drawings.[4][5]  Method  A special axis head allows for Cinematographers to set up Dutch angles.  The Dutch angle is a shot in which the camera has been rotated around the axis of the lens and relative to the horizon or vertical lines in the shot.[6]  The primary use of a Dutch angle is to cause a sense of unease or disorientation for the viewer.[7] Dutch angles are often static shots, but in a dynamic (moving) Dutch angle shot, the camera can pivot, pan, or track along the established diagonal axis for the shot.[3] From Wikipedia.com