Man Who Crossed the Sahara, The Canada
2008, 53min.
Prod./Script/Dir./Dir. of Phot.: Korbett Matthews, Compos.: Richard Horowitz, Sound: Kyle Stanfield, Edit.: Prem Sooriyakumar
A breathtaking journey into the mysterious life, death and afterlife of Frank Cole, a brilliant, enigmatic filmmaker obsessed with his art, the Sahara, life, and most compellingly, death. His formally inventive films explored his fascination with mortality, which was also his fuel for life. Korbett Matthews fluidly wraps Cole’s haunting film footage around interviews with his family and friends to construct a fitting meta-narrative for a man whose art and life were indistinguishable. Dreaming of conquering his nemesis, the Sahara, and armed with only a Bolex camera, Cole made the grueling 7,300-kilometer 11-month journey by camel across the cadaver-littered desert. Over the next 10 years, Cole worked obsessively on the film he shot there Life without Death. When it was almost complete, Cole went back to shoot more footage but tragically, he was never to return.
| Matthews, Korbett Korbett Matthews (born 1972, Montreal, Canada)
Matthews is a Montreal-based filmmaker who produces, directs and photographs his own works. He studied filmmaking at Concordia University and has worked as a freelance researcher, cameraman and assistant director on several feature-length documentaries since 2001. His award winning films include Lezenvisib, Devouring Buddha and The Man Who Crossed the Sahara. His films merge new forms of cinematic expression with traditional non-fiction approaches to move viewers into a new audio-visual realm. In 2005 he opened 7th Embassy, his own film production company.
Filmography
Lezenvisib (2000), Devouring Buddha (2002), The Man Who Crossed the Sahara (2008)
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