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. Met with an uninvited, inscrutable camera operator, how will the region’s inhabitants respond?

Amusing and unsettling, mundane and otherworldly, A man and a camera is an endlessly surprising provocation: an upending of documentary power dynamics, an inquiry into human nature, a rendezvous with the real.

DIR. GUIDO HENDRIKX - 64MIN - 2021 - NETHERLANDS

"somewhere between documentary cinema and conceptual art.....Everybody looks mystified, but at some level, of course, they all understand what’s going on: they are being pranked, in the style of Euro-arthouse vivisectionists Lars von Trier or Michael Haneke. Their bourgeois stuffiness is being subject to deadpan scrutiny." - Guardian

"A wildcard and a brilliant satire on documentary filmmaking itself" - Para:DOX

"presents a puzzle of commentary on the human condition....there’s no music to manipulate the images, no quick-cuts to create humour, and the juxtaposition of the same circumstance, again and again, creates a deeper meaning about human connection" - Film Enquiry

"Guido Hendrikx boldly spins a clever premise into an intriguing, unsettling reflection on documentary filmmaking, co-operation, complicity, human nature and the power of silence.” - Screen Daily

"impossible to forget and leaves plenty of space for contemplation long after the end credits have rolled.” - Cineuropa

"both recognisable and fascinatingly alienating, at times also causing vicarious shame on the viewer’s part....This successful, original work also gives rise to a creeping sense of unease in the viewer. What would you do, and why?" - IFFR