Originally published as "Cinéma(s) de l'histoire: Dark Rooms, Speaking Objects, More than Film: Gustav Deutsch as a Museum Maker" (2009). Translated from the German by Renée von Paschen. The essay was first published in the book Gustav Deutsch, edited by Wilbirg Brainin-Donnenberg and Michael Loebenstein, FilmmuseumSynemaPublikationen, Vienna 2009. Above: Gustav Deutsch.In the course of the European Cultural Project Light/Image/Reality, a camera obscura was built on the Greek Island of Aegina in 2003. Those responsible were Gustav Deutsch (idea/concept), Franz Berzl (architecture) and Gavrilos Michalis (realization). It is a cylindrical building with twelve small openings evenly allocated on its perimeter. When they are opened, the light from the surroundings is reflected in the building onto twelve screens, which are suspended from the ceiling in a circle. These natural projections result in a twelve-part panoramic view of the surroundings, mirror-inverted and upside down. The building was erected on the foundation...
- 11/6/2019
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