The Paradox of Seeing and Believing
A Truly Awesome **VIDEO**
Skippy Massey
Humboldt Sentinel
The first time watching Box is a unique and jaw-dropping experience.
Seeing isn’t always believing. The viewer must juggle the pure enjoyment value of Box with the logistical questions and thoughts about the boundaries of space and matter.
The second time we watched Box—and we recommend you do that on a full screen—the magical illusions seemed less illusory, meshing the images back to a state of reality that we could fully comprehend in our minds.
We watched in star-struck awe. How did they do it?
The production house Bot & Dolly introduces us to special robotic camera systems that can move objects around with remarkable precision. Bot and Dolly are former automoble industry robots, rescued from Detroit’s factory floor and retooled for a new life and purpose.
The twin robots take flat images projected onto screens and seemingly transform them into 3D objects moving about in precise symmetry, while a man, seemingly in total control, interacts with them.
It is rare to come across a video that introduces us to a a technique completely new to the film industry and on the grandiose scale Box presents. Altogether it’s one magical performance and an extreme experience of optical illusion that isn’t soon forgotten.
We hope you enjoy it as much as we did.
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