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Pushing at the limits of non-fiction cinema, "A Man Imagined" follows the street life and the psychology of a man troubled by both the present and past, revealing the existential solitude of a man at once gentle but marred by a storied past.
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Original Title: A Man Imagined Year of Production: 2024 Duration: 62 min Country: Canada Languages: English Director: Brian M. Cassidy & Melanie Shatzky Cinematographer: Brian M. Cassidy Editor: Brian M. Cassidy, Melanie Shatzky, Pablo Alvarez-Mesa Sound Design: Ilyaa Ghafouri, Melanie Shatzky, Brian M. Cassidy Producer: Rohan Fernando

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.

When Lloyd reveals a startling detail from his past, the filmmakers attempt to help him piece together a story that emerges in fragments—a jigsaw puzzle of painful childhood memories that seems to hold an unspeakable mystery.

With its subjective, lyrical camerawork and expressionistic sound design, the film delivers a poetic meditation on life at the margins.

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Brian M. Cassidy and Melanie Shatzky are collaborative artists working at the intersection of documentary and narrative cinema.

The films of Brian M. Cassidy and Melanie Shatzky have premiered at the Berlin, Sundance, Toronto, Locarno and Rotterdam film festivals. Their feature debut, Francine, starring Academy Award winner Melissa Leo, was called "raw, intimate and observed with penetrating acuity" by The Hollywood Reporter and was selected as a New York Times Critics' Pick. Their documentary, The Patron Saints, was called "one of the most powerful Canadian documentaries of recent years" by POV Magazine. 

“The films of Brian M. Cassidy and Melanie Shatzky find life and persistence within dismal surroundings. Cassidy and Shatzky not only take us outside our comfort zone, but helps us understand the friction between our isolated / isolating daily landscapes and our mental health in a way rarely addressed on film. The results generated by their singular body of work are always engaging, and frequently revelatory.” - Toronto International Film Festival
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Brian M. Cassidy and Melanie Shatzky are collaborative artists working at the intersection of documentary and narrative cinema while Ilyaa Ghafouri is known for his sound designs for films such as Arrival (2016), Race (2016) and The Walk (2015). Together they collaborated on 'A Man Imagined' with Shatzky as the Sound Recordist and with Cassidy, Shatzky and Ghafouri as Sound Designers.

The films of Brian M. Cassidy and Melanie Shatzky have premiered at the Berlin, Sundance, Toronto, Locarno and Rotterdam film festivals. Their documentary, The Patron Saints, was called "one of the most powerful Canadian documentaries of recent years" by POV Magazine.

Ilyaa Ghafouri graduated from the Music Conservatory of Montreal in 2018, Ilyaa Ghafouri is a composer and sound designer who first worked in cinema and theatre. He notably signs the original music and sound design of Simo, short film by Aziz Zoromba, as well as Y'a pas d'heure pour les femmes by Sarra El Abed and III by Salomé Villeneuve.