* Director: Konstantin Brazhnik
* Length: 6 minutes, 4 seconds
“Amelie and Alchemy” is a documentary-style film about a chemist who wants to take a picture of his 4-year-old daughter, Amelie. He’s not interested in doing it in just any old way, though. He’s interested in doing it in an extremely old way. It’s a mid-19th century process known as wet plate collodion ambrotype. What that involves, basically, is taking a picture with a camera about the size of a 32-inch TV where the person being photographed can’t move for 15 seconds, or else the picture won’t come out properly.
While it’s a fascinating look at this lost art of photography, Amelie is the real star of the show. She’s cute as a button, and the fact that a 4-year-old can remain still for 15 seconds to have her picture taken is simply mind-blowing.
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