What Do Porters Providing Transport Services Look Like in 2024?
One of the few avant-garde films preserved from the interwar period (from 1937), i.e. those that wanted to convey the unnoticed obviousness is The adventure of a good man (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FlaFGPiioPQ), written by Stefan and Franciszka Themerson, with music composed by Stefan Kisielewski is worth a moment of attention.
The plot backwards, about the consequences of a good-natured official walking backwards, exposes the motif of two people wearing a cabinet with a mirror (yes, yes, Henryk Kluba and Jakub Goldberg dragging a wardrobe on the Baltic beach in Polański'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 as big and heavy as 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 the frame with porters performing a transport service look like in 2024? Banal, it will not be an image noticed and fixed by the human eye. The first better algorithm asked to grind the scene from Themerson's film immediately produces a series of frames sterilely poor, extremely functional, anonymous like the face of a courier who has already managed to turn around and rushes on before we managed to pick up our parcel today.
Please look at how the image machine seamlessly crosses fragments of human anatomy with objects. Pure functionality, only legs and boxes in a smooth space. We can look at it as little-significant fun with the metamorphization of an old, twentieth-century avant-garde of living 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 only transports, delivers, delivers, tightens, votes - nothing personal. So professional in every way Service 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 as with the Themersons and Polanski, the porters are not wearing any prints, no branded overalls? Amateurism, carrying a wardrobe and placing a product - it's the same thing today.
Someone who carries is no longer a "man of work" or Homo faber It 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 film wardrobe, a wardrobe that reflects and multiplies worlds, just like in the Themersons' film.
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.