Camera Opera is filmed on the set of a "Das Duell", a German current-affairs television program. Here, the role of the cameras in conventional news broadcasting is reversed: they become the subject and the performance of filming becomes the action. Five camera operators are directed through a series of choreographed movements around the silent figure of the anchorwoman. The operators circle around the studio, focus on the anchorwoman and pan out to expose the set, equipment, lighting, audience seating and each-other. The performance is set to Strauss waltzes that were piped into the studio to guide the camera operators' movements and later edited in sync with the image to form the final two-screen film. What we see is how the space of the studio is organized through and by camera views, and how the set may become a performative space based on a series of codified relations. Engaging the Brechtian technique of alienation, the cameras turn on themselves, denying their traditional role of relaying information and exposing their participation and status as subjects.