Camera Obscura is directed by American filmmaker Aaron B. Koontz, making his feature directorial debut after a few short films previously. The screenplay is co-written by Aaron B. Koontz and ...

And while he acknowledges that no one film can capture ... Combat Obscura, June 19, 7 p.m., Amherst Cinema, 28 Amity St., Amherst Down the road at the Yiddish Book Center in Amherst, Robert J. Labay’s ...

in “Camera Obscura,” director-co-scenarist Aaron B. Koontz’s promising if imperfect debut feature. This psychological thriller-cum-horror film revolves around a photographer who discovers ...

Koontz’s sci-fi splatter picture “Camera Obscura” has a premise so deliciously ... This a great idea for a horror film: a troubled soul forced into a string of terrible misdeeds, in the ...

Koontz’s slow-burning horror film, but it proves less compelling than its centuries-old namesake. Though born of an inventive idea, “Camera Obscura” comes out underdeveloped. “The ...

enrolled in film school at Columbia University. He just graduated. Combat Obscura is his first movie. Lagoze came home from Afghanistan with all the footage the Marine Corps doesn't want the ...

Atlas Obscura on Slate is a blog about the world ... at the showings of the Cinématographe Lumière, the program of short films in which La Ciotat first began appearing in 1896, seemed reasonably ...

Unable to blend artfilm with psychological thriller, writer-director Hamlet Sarkissian makes something opaque indeed out of “Camera Obscura ... from a Franju film, he cuts out victim ...

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Photo film wasn't a thing over two thousand years ago, of course, but some people understood the importance of light and reflections well enough to use something called a "camera obscura" to view ...

Koontz's horror film 'Camera Obscura.' By Frank Scheck Its title proves the most evocative element of Aaron B. Koontz’s horror thriller that fails to live up to its considerable ambitions.