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title: This is a remarkable video. Watch it, and you won't know what's real and what isn't.
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# [This is a remarkable video. Watch it, and you won't know what's real and what isn't.](https://www.redsharknews.com/production/item/924-this-is-a-remarkable-video-watch-it-and-you-won-t-know-what-s-real-and-what-isn-t)

 Written by [David Shapton](https://www.redsharknews.com/author/david-shapton) | Jul 24, 2013 8:30:00 AM

City of Samba

**It's easy to trick your brain into thinking that something is different. Often these "illusions" last only for moments, until your perception calibrates itself and everything seems "normal" again**

Perspective is perhaps the most pervasive illusion. It gives us a sense of depth, even in 2D. It's the subject of any number of illusions. "Forced Perspective" can trick us into thinking that something is bigger or smaller - until we move our heads and the illusion breaks.

So, given the normally fleeting existence of visual illusions, it's all the more surprising that you can make a whole film that relies on one specific trick, and yet, however hard you look, the illusion that the people, cars and buildings in a well-made Tilt-Shift film are miniatures doesn't fall apart. Which makes it all the more fascinating.

### Utterly convincing

This is another Tilt-Shift film from Keith Loutit and collaborator Jarbas Agelli. No matter how many times you see the trademark Tilt-Shift techniques (shallow depth of field, elevated camera angle, time lapse) it's still an utterly convincing and yet, at the same time, perplexing effect.

We interviewed Keith Loutit [here](http://redshark.ebizontech.biz/index.php/2012/10/01/you-ve-never-seen-a-video-like-this-before/). 

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