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A Man Imagined

A Man Imagined

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Status

Released

Release Date

Jan 25, 2024

Runtime

1h 2m

Genres

Documentary

User Score

50%

Original Title

A Man Imagined

Production Companies

ONF | NFB

Director

Melanie Shatzky

Description

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.