The Plot in Reverse

The Plot in Reverse

One of the few preserved pre-war (from 1937) avant-garde films, i.e. those that wanted to show the unnoticed obviousness is The adventure of a good man (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FlaFGPiioPQ) by Stefan and Franciszka Themerson. Stefan Kisielewski's music is worth a moment's attention.

The plot backwards, about the consequences of a good-natured official walking backwards, exposes the motif of two people wearing a wardrobe with a mirror (yes, yes, Henryk Kluba and Jakub Goldberg dragging a wardrobe on the Baltic beach in Polanski's 1958 etude, it was already the "second season" of this symbolic transport service in the history of the film). Will we live to see the third season and the motif carrying something big and heavy like a wardrobe will fill the film frames and our heads? 

It would be nice, because every newly taken up thread, every related thread - it's typical, Łódź wisdom - pleases. Reality must be constantly repaired and repaired, since we are still unable to produce reality 2.0.

What can a staff with porters performing a transport service look like in 2023? Banal, it will not be an image noticed and fixed by the human eye. The first better algorithm asked to grind scenes from Themerson's film immediately produces a series of frames that are sterilely poor, extremely functional, anonymous like the face of a courier who has already managed to turn around and rushes on before we received our parcel today. 

Please see how the image machine seamlessly crosses fragments of human anatomy with objects (https://drive.google.com/file/d/1RYNAcOHolq6gri8F_StHTNdyxAGk8hEH/view). 

Pure functionality, only legs and boxes, in a smooth space. We can look at it as insignificant games with the metamorphization of an old twentieth-century avant-garde using AI. We can also think about whether these early (black-gray and white-mute) images of a new species, the existence of which we stubbornly do not want to notice: man-service, perfect (professionally) no one. He just carries something, delivers, delivers, tightens, votes, nothing personal. So professional in every way Service-entity She doesn't need eyes, why look into her eyes? 

Efficient, autonomous control system, legs and space for cargo/service, possibly housing with advertising. 

Have you noticed that both The Themersons and Polanski's porters don't have any prints, no company overalls? Amateurism, carrying a wardrobe, placing a product, is the same thing today. 

Someone who carries is no longer a "man of work" or Homo faber is homo blandus.

Its population will grow rapidly in the realities of the new technological feudalism. Maybe let's try to design a wardrobe to measure them at the beginning of new times. A movie wardrobe, a wardrobe that reflects and multiplies worlds like in Themerson's movie. 

Will it be a wardrobe covered like a racing car from Dakar, with a code instead of a mirror? 

All in all, we just have to get "to the place" with her. 

As a donkey, we don't care more and more, just to get to tomorrow.

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