FYC Best Short Film - Lost Explorer
Starring Roger Corman and Sally Kirkland
based on the novel by Nobel Laureate Patrick Modiano
written & directed by Catherine Corman
Jean, an undersea explorer and documentarian, fakes his own disappearance. Skipping a flight to Rio for his next expedition, he instead revisits the places that inspired his adventures, searching for the longing that drove him to the ends of the earth, and which now pulls him back to his own past.
“quite moving…lyric melancholia”
-Peter Rainer, former chair, National Society of Film Critics
A melancholy, delicate shiver of dream poetry, memory and mourning...it felt like some sort of early Cocteau film...there's a certain ache here. Very powerful and beautiful, pure cinema.
-Chris Alexander, Toronto Critics Association