25 Films For 25 Years! EPFC’s Online Anniversary Celebration!

Film 24: I’ll Be Your Mirror (2018), selected by Cosmo Segurson

“Revisiting this project from 2018 brings back wonderful memories of rainy days at the beach with fellow co-op members Gina, Andrew, Beaux, Lisa and Paolo. What a gift it was to document this iconic Sana Monica monument!

As image makers, we are all fascinated by the analog magic contained within the Camera Obscura, This project also included community art making workshops, film classes, and lively conversations with Santa Monica locals. After some internet sleuthing and conversations with local historians, we uncovered an old radio play from1947 called “Quite Please” - a mystery story that takes place at the very building we were becoming obsessed with. We used it to create a kind of structure for this entertaining short documentary.

Hopefully our time capsule from 2018 will inspire visitors and locals alike to walk up the mysterious dark staircase that leads up to the fascinating little round room inside the Santa Monica Camera Obscura.”