Kamera Obskura

The title Kamera Obskura is a Filipino spelling of the latin Camera Obscura which simply means dark room The films concept adheres to formalist cinema where the filmmakers 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 cinemas historical cultural heritage as we know it such as a pseudoexpressionist experimental Filipino cinema of the silent film era It is a film within a film The narrative plays with the idea of a retrofuturist 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