Kamera Obskura

Kamera Obskura

2012
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Overview

The title “Kamera Obskura” is a Filipino spelling of the latin “Camera Obscura” which simply means “dark room”. 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”.

Status: Released

Language: TL

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Production Information

Production Companies
Filmex Pelipula Productions Cultural Center of the Philippines Cinemalaya Foundation
Production Countries
Philippines
Spoken Languages
Tagalog

Quick Facts

Release Date July 26, 2012
Status Released
Language TL
IMDb ID tt2246100

Cast

Pen Medina
Pen Medina

Ping Medina
Ping Medina

Lou Veloso
Lou Veloso

Joel Torre
Joel Torre

Key Crew

Raymond Red
Director
Raymond Red
Screenplay