Music video for cellist Tina Guo's arrangement of Apres Un Reve
The Cello scenes were shot thru one of our camera obscuras that was hand built by Les Cookson
then combined with intimate footage of Eli Presser's amazing puppet work
This really captures the unique look and depth of a camera obscura's image. Every scene with the woman and the cello is actual footage from the camera obscura's screen. A video camera was mounted above the camera obscura to film the screen-as pictured below.
They did an excellent job of capturing the obscura's image the way it looks in real life and dramatically demonstrated the obscura's ability to focus on one object at a time and jump from far to near with a simple slide of the lens.
Some behind the scenes photos of them filming this video through one of our camera obscuras:
