by Raymond Red
83 Minutes | Experimental | Drama

CAST
Pen Medina
Joel Torre
Nanding Josef
Abe Pagtama
Irene Gabriel
Ping Medina
Suzette Ranillo
Lou Veloso
Archie Adamos
Madeleine Nicolas
Sue Prado
Ces Aldaba
Teddy Co

PRODUCTION

PRODUCERS
Raymond Red
Filmex Inc.
DIRECTOR Raymond Red
ASSOCIATE PRODUCERS
Butch Jimenez
Suzette Ranillo
Henry Frejas
Mac Alejandre
Mon Confiado
Paolo Villaluna
EDITOR AND CINEMATOGRAPHER Raymond Red
ART DIRECTOR Mikey Red
PRODUCTION DESIGNER
Daniel Red
Cesar Hernando
MUSIC Diwa de Leon
SOUND ENGINEERING Ditoy Agila
VISUAL EFFECTS
Edrie Ocampo
Pablo Biglang-Awa
PRODUCTION MANAGERS
Cathy Sanidad
Ado Urbano
Marvin Manalo

LOGLINE

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.” He later immerses back into society by slowly climbing up the different social classes represented by the levels of different floors in a mysterious building, where corruption, deceit, and betrayal seem to be at work at every level. The film is a tribute to the Filipino cinematic heritage. Through the re-imagining of an era of cinema in the transition from the lost silent era, the filmmaker hopes to instill in the next generation the recognition of the value of passing on that heritage before it is totally lost.