Kamera Obskura is a 2012 Filipino drama film produced and directed by Raymond Red. It was co-written by Red and Pen Medina, who stars as the protagonist of a fictional lost film recovered by film archivists.

Film archivists uncover a lost Filipino black-and-white silent film about an escaped convict who uses a magic camera to help the people of a small town. After showing the 70-minute film, the archivists debate its significance and the best way to preserve Filipino cinema.

• Pen Medina as Juan, star of the lost silent film
• Joel Torre
• Nanding Josef
• Abe Pagtama
• Suzette Ranillo
• Ping Medina
• Irene Gabriel
• Lou Veloso
• Bert Habal
• Archie Adamos
• Madlen Nicolas
• Teddy Co
• Cesar Hernando
• Ricky Orellana

Red was influenced by Metropolis and Zelig. Red says that he had not seen The Artist prior to filming.^[1]

Kamera Obskura premiered at the 8th Cinemalaya Independent Film Festival on July 21, 2012.^[1]

Richard Kuipers of Variety wrote that Red "succeeds marvelously in conceptual and visual terms, but his soundtrack strategy is likely to sharply divide audiences".^[2] Oggs Cruz of Twitch Film criticized both the score and the fictional film-within-a-film but called the concept "utterly brilliant".^[3]

Kamera Obskura won Best Original Music Score, Best Direction, and Special Jury Prize at Cinemalaya.^[4]