Man Imagined w/ Myself When I Am Real

On a concrete island at an intersection where a bleak industrial zone feeds the highway, a lean figure with a long, wispy beard approaches vehicles stopped at red lights. This is Lloyd, a 60-something man who has survived for decades on the streets—each hard-earned day of which is etched into his face like the lines of a medieval wood carving. The latest feature from directing team Brian M. Cassidy and Melanie Shatzky pushes at the limits of documentary filmmaking as it embeds us in a life on the streets, crafting in collaboration with their subject a strikingwork that defies easy categorization. Hybrid feature.