A MAN IMAGINED
A bracingly intimate and hallucinatory portrait of a man with schizophrenia surviving amidst urban detritus and decay.
Pushing at the limits of non-fiction cinema, this immersive documentary fable, made in close collaboration with 67-year old Lloyd, follows the jagged path of a decades-long street survivor across harsh winters and blistering summers, as he sells discarded items to motorists, sleeps in junkyards and lapses into near-psychedelic reveries.
With its subjective, lyrical camerawork and expressionistic sound design, the latest feature from directors Brian M. Cassidy and Melanie Shatzky finds poetic power and transcendence in the harrowed mind of its protagonist, delivering a poignant meditation on life at the margins.
World Premiere: International Film Festival Rotterdam
62 min / Documentary / 1.78 / 2024 / Press Kit
"Evokes the ephemeral nature of life itself" - POV Magazine
"This intimate portrait shows Lloyd as he is—and the world as he sees it, in all its strange and terrifying and beautiful glory” - The Georgia Straight
"Flecked with strange, kinetic beauty... the film gifts its central figure a degree of healing dignity and respect that resonates like a balm" - The Tyee
