Kamera Obskura 12 years old

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”.

Credits

Kamera Obskura Cast

Name	Character
Ping Medina He was 29, now 41 years old
Joel Torre He was 51, now 63 years old
Pen Medina He was 61, now 74 years old

Kamera Obskura Crew

Name	Department
Raymond Red as Director.	Directing
Raymond Red as Screenplay.	Writing