Cinema Panopticum

Thomas Ott’s Cinema Panopticum, a wordless one-shot from Black Velvet, presents a series of interconnected silent vignettes. Using his signature scratchboard style, Ott crafts a grim, cinematic journey through a mysterious carnival attraction, where each viewer’s chosen film reveals a darkly ironic fate. This 2008 release stands as a concentrated showcase of Ott’s uniquely macabre visual storytelling.