Melanie Shatzky

Melanie Shatzky

Still: A Man Imagined
Melanie SHATZKY (1976, Canada) and Brian M. Cassidy are collaborative artists working at the intersection of documentary and narrative cinema. Their films have screened at many film festivals and arts venues including, Sundance, Berlin, Toronto, IFFR, Locarno, the New York Museum of Modern Art, le Musée de la Civilisation, ICA London and the Rio de Janeiro Museum of Modern Art. Their first feature-length fiction film Francine (2012), was selected as a New York Times Critic’s Pick. A Man Imagined (2024) is officially selected for IFFR 2024.

Filmography

The Delaware Project (2007, short, co-dir), God Provides (2007, short doc, co-dir), The Patron Saints (2011, doc, co-dir), Francine (2012, co-dir), Animals Under Anaesthesia: Speculations on the Dreamlife of Beasts (2018, short, co-dir), Interchange (2018, short), A Man Imagined (2024, short doc, co-dir)