Kamera Obskura (2012)

The film’s concept adheres to formalist cinema, where the filmmaker’s thesis is to make a semblance of a vintage film seemingly produced sometime in the late 1920s to early 1930s in the Philippines. The thesis is to conjure up a film from a period that did not really exist in Philippine cinema’s historical cultural heritage as we know it, such as a pseudo-expressionist / experimental Filipino cinema of the silent film era. It is a film within a film. The narrative plays with the idea of a retro-futurist world where a prisoner locked away in a dark chamber for over two decades only sees the reality of the world outside through the small hole in his cell, which projects an image of the city on his wall, the phenomenon of the “camera obscura”.

Date of release
2012-07-26
Runtime
1h 23m
Genres
Drama
Director
Raymond Red

Casting

Interesting facts

Kamera Obskura is a 2012 Philippine drama film produced and directed by Raymond Red. It was co-written by Red and Pen Medina, who stars as the protagonist of a fictional silent lost film recovered by film archivists.

Production

Red was influenced by Metropolis and Zelig. Red says that he had not seen The Artist prior to filming.

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