San Pablo Cape - Tierra del Fuego - Argentina

A Bolex at the End of the World

It was part of the trip to Tiera del Fuego take my Bolex Paillard 16mm camcorder, which I restored, to a different place. I decided to film with it the lighthouse of Cabo San Pablo and Desdemona, on the Atlantic coast of Tierra del Fuego.

So this video is like a behind the camera one.

Climbing the 2 km trail and 110 meters high, with my 15 kg of photo, cine, drone equipment, was not easy.

Whether the footage shot with the Bolex came out good I still don't know. This anguish is what makes filming in analogue such a pleasure. It only takes a few weeks for the images recorded on celluloid to be revealed.

The Camcorder is a Bolex H16 Reflex, manufactured in 1956, and the film a KODAK Ektachrome, launched on the market in the early 40's. The lens was a young Kern-Paillard from 1968. All without having to carry batteries, just wind it up.

For now, we have images of it taken by the drone, which withstood the region's strong winds very well.

The cape is 180 km from Ushuaia-Argentina, that claims the title of world's southernmost city.