Homme portant

The title can partly be taken literally. The carrying man. The man who always carries film cans around. Who always makes films about himself and never entrusts those films to anyone. And therefore always carries himself. Like Sisyfus, like Christus, like the Ixion as told by Alfred Jarry in his La chandelle verte. The title should also partly be taken metaphorically. Portant then becomes important. The man who thinks he is important. Who is attached to his dignity. Who proudly talks about himself. The film is a playful and humorous essay about the heavier and lighter side of life. About a man who is preparing (like a machine) to fly and about another Machine Man who carries electronic images and enables the carrying man to fulfill a dream. The Carrying Man is prosaic. He does not only carry his films around, but also his furniture and his clothes. A Carrying Man is someone with no fixed abode. But the Carrying Man is also the universal man from the Renaissance who still had to find everything out and could think the world would allow itself to be understood. It provides beautiful constructions if you let the camera look like a human eye or let people fly like birds. Appealing ingenuity. (GjZ)