| Kamera Obskura | |
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| Directed by | Raymond Red |
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| Produced by | Raymond Red |
| Cinematography | Raymond Red |
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| Music by | Diwa de Leon |
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Running time | 83 minutes |
| Country | Philippines |
| Languages | Tagalog English |
Kamera Obskura is a 2012 Filipino 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 lost film recovered by film archivists.
Film archivists uncover a lost Filipino black-and-white silent film about an escaped convict who uses a magic camera to help the people of a small town. After showing the 70-minute film, the archivists debate its significance and the best way to preserve Filipino cinema.
Red was influenced by Metropolis and Zelig . Red says that he had not seen The Artist prior to filming. [1]
Kamera Obskura premiered at the 8th Cinemalaya Independent Film Festival on July 21, 2012. [1]
Richard Kuipers of Variety wrote that Red "succeeds marvelously in conceptual and visual terms, but his soundtrack strategy is likely to sharply divide audiences". [2] Oggs Cruz of Twitch Film criticized both the score and the fictional film-within-a-film but called the concept "utterly brilliant". [3]
Kamera Obskura won Best Original Music Score, Best Direction, and Special Jury Prize at Cinemalaya. [4]
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