{"id":15759,"date":"2023-07-07T21:00:45","date_gmt":"2023-07-08T01:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=15759"},"modified":"2023-07-06T21:34:15","modified_gmt":"2023-07-07T01:34:15","slug":"a-man-and-a-camera-2021-guido-hendrikx","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/15759","title":{"rendered":"A Man and a Camera (2021, Guido Hendrikx)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Guido (<em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/11926\">Stranger in Paradise<\/a><\/em>) is being confrontational in a new way: by walking up to people&#8217;s houses and filming them without speaking.  He groups the chosen encounters by the type of reaction, so in early scenes everyone he meets is standoffish or defensive or aggressive, then a section of people who figure he&#8217;s up to something harmless and play along.  The woman seen below introduces him to her baby, saying it&#8217;s also deaf &#038; mute.  It gets more tense than <em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/14948\">The Balcony Movie<\/a><\/em> when people start letting him into their houses.  One guy is very easygoing but warns Guido that the neighborhood groupchat has called the cops on him.  In the end he&#8217;s making repeat visits to known-friendly houses.  It&#8217;s kind of the essence of documentary, showing up and letting the subjects control what happens.  Guido has a new one set in Sudan which premiered over a year ago.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image23\/mancamera1.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>from Mads Mikkelsen&#8217;s Cinema Scope article on interventionist documentaries:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The true protagonist of <em>A Man and a Camera<\/em>, however, is the latter half of the titular duo.  There is a basic understanding at work here that the very act of filming is transgressive, and that being filmed generates an alienating self-consciousness in the unwilling subject of the camera&#8217;s attention.  In any social situation, the presence of a camera makes for an uneven game; through his repeated acts of passive-aggressive monomania, Hendrikx simply amplifies this dynamic to study its effects.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image23\/mancamera2.jpg\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Guido (Stranger in Paradise) is being confrontational in a new way: by walking up to people&#8217;s houses and filming them without speaking. He groups the chosen encounters by the type of reaction, so in early scenes everyone he meets is standoffish or defensive or aggressive, then a section of people who figure he&#8217;s up to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[2643,93,3131],"class_list":["post-15759","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-2020s","tag-documentary","tag-guido-hendrikx"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15759","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15759"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15759\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15784,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15759\/revisions\/15784"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}