A MAN IMAGINED
by BRIAN CASSIDY AND MELANIE SHATZKY, 2024

Catalog Number: FTF-159
Length: 62 minutes

Pushing at the limits of non-fiction cinema, A Man Imagined is a bracingly intimate and hallucinatory portrait of a man with schizophrenia surviving amidst urban detritus and decay. Made in close collaboration with 67-year-old Lloyd, this immersive documentary fable 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.

Directed by Brian M. Cassidy and Melanie Shatzky
Produced by Rohan Fernando
Starring Lloyd

Festivals: International Film Festival Rotterdam, Torino Film Festival, New/Next Festival, Calgary International Film Festival, DOXA Documentary Film Festival, Guanajuato International Film Festival, International Festival Signs of the Night Bangkok, Mirage Film Festival, DokuBaku International Documentary Film Festival, Tallahassee Film Festival, Rendezvous with Madness Film Festival, Montreal Critics' Week, Camara Lucida International Film Festival, Istanbul International Experimental Film Festival, Doc.Sydney Documentary Film Festival

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PRESS

"A Man Imagined evokes the ephemeral nature of life itself. " -Matthew Hays, 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” -V.S. Wells, The Georgia Straight

“An unheard-of, almost subversive tenderness.” -Olivier Du Ruisseau, Le Devoir

"Flecked with strange, kinetic beauty... The film gifts its central figure a degree of healing dignity and respect that resonates like a balm." -Dorothy Woodend, The Tyee