Before VR headsets, there were folding peepshows—and this 53-minute rabbit hole proves we're just repeating history.
The film looks at ways of creating spezial illusions through amiguous images, perspective theatres, folding peepshows and from the 19th century, the stereoscope, which look forward to today’s holography.
Direction
Nekes treats 19th-century toys with the reverence of blockbuster set pieces.
Production
Meticulous recreations of perspective theatres you desperately want to touch.
Director
Werner Nekes
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Werner Nekes was a West German avant-garde filmmaker who spent decades obsessed with the pre-cinema era, making this basically his life's thesis condensed.
The stereoscope was 19th-century Instagram—families gathered to gawk at 3D vacation photos. Nekes wants you to feel that same wonder and creepiness simultaneously.
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