Apparitions

Apariciones is a cinematographic essay on the question of what are apparitions or what might they be Its a filmed documentation of the verbs to appear and to disappear This film challenges itself by trying to make visible und perceptible these unseizable and sometimes invisible subjects Apariciones is a collageshortfilm an associative definition a visual thinking process a physics of illusions This short film uses a variety of different mechanical chemical and digital techniques It was partially filmed with quite normal film cameras such as the Bolex and ARRI Alexa However in the animation scenes several different photo cameras were used a Canon 50D for instance which was fitted with a selfmade telephoto lens made of cardboard a cardboard pinhole camera a largeformat Sinar camera 4x5 inches and a smallformat reflex cameras Nikon FM and Canon 5D