Peter Lewis’s The Camera, a mysterious, intriguing tale that was made with a DSLR, no crew, and about fifty bucks. Perfect in its simplicity, beautiful and haunting in its visuals, The Camera is a reminder that a great film is in everyone’s grasp, as long as he/she has the creative capacity and appropriate willpower to drop pretension, and quite simply, make something.

The Camera is a short that is perfect in its vagueness, lived-in and mystical. It plays upon that wonderful, inexorable feeling that there is some sort of intangible magic to old places and objects. While there isn’t a strictly defined plot, the ambiguity actually enhances things here—letting your mind wander to its own conclusions. This isn’t a film that you watch, but rather float through, meandering from the striking visuals to the artful score to the surprisingly emotional conclusion. Shot entirely at magic hour, the film’s visuals are complemented by a pinkish-orange glow, giving everything a warm, enchanted quality.

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