Der Film zeigt die Geschichte der Camera Obscura und der Guckkästen und führt in die verzerrte Welt der Anamorphosen, entfaltet den visuellen Reichtum des historischen Schattentheaters und die Vielfalt des Schattenspiels.
Traces the history of the Camera Obscura, the peep-show, anamorphoses and shadow theatre. The principle of the Camera Obscura was already known in the fourth century: a dark room where a picture of the outside world passes through a small hole and is pictured back-to-front and upside-down on the opposite wall. This is the principle that, approximately 1500 years later, made the development of the photo and movie cameras possible. The principle of the Camera Obscura played a role in the research of the laws of perspective.
On the other hand, the peepbox is often a reversal of the principle of the Camera Obscura. In the Camera Obscura, or rather, with its help, views are sketched - in the peep-show, such views are observed. However, research on perspectives awakens an interest in its irregularities, in distorted pictures - anamorphoses. Already, prior to the play with perspective, the play with light and shadow was developed.
