A Man and a Camera (2021)

(2021)

Feature Documentary Competition | The Netherlands | Dutch | 65 min

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About the Film

An enigmatic entity roams the Dutch hinterlands, silently pointing a camera at all that it encounters. Soon, it finds itself standing in front of a doorway. How will the region’s inhabitants respond to this uninvited, inscrutable camera operator? Amusing and unsettling, mundane and otherworldly, the film is an endlessly surprising provocation: an upending of documentary power dynamics and an inquiry into human nature. 

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Director

Guido Hendrikx

Guido Hendrikx was born in Eindhoven in 1987 and studied Liberal Arts and Sciences as well as Practical Ethics at Utrecht University. He also studied Directing Documentary and Screenwriting at Netherlands Film Academy. His award-winning shorts Escort and Among Us were featured at film festivals throughout the world. His feature debut Stranger in Paradise was the opening film of International Documentary Filmfestival Amsterdam in 2016. It was theatrically released in cinemas in Italy, the UK, Belgium and the Netherlands, and was nominated for the European Film Awards for Best Documentary. Hendrikx wrote several screenplays in collaboration with other directors, including Ena Sendijarevic, and worked as a curator for the video department of The Correspondent.

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