Synopsis
Fantastic: conceived or appearing as if by an unrestrained imagination.
Confabulation: the replacement of a gap in a person’s memory by a falsification that he or she believes to be true.
Fantastic Confabulations is the character-driven, casual conversation style debut feature film from Andrew Finnigan. It examines the nuances of friendship and what happens when that friendship is challenged by unforeseen events.
When Wes' (David Harlos) marriage falls apart, he moves in with his best friend from childhood, Ray (Andrew Finnigan), a responsible financial advisor who tries to help Wes, a former children's book author, get his life back on track. Ray, however, suffers an unexpected brain aneurysm and Wes is forced into the role of caretaker. As Ray stumbles through the recovery process, Wes finds an upside to Ray's overactive imagination, but it could also cost him their friendship.
One of the first feature-length films shot on the Canon 7D DSLR camera. On a shoe-string budget and using non-actors and actors alike, Fantastic Confabulations carries an uncanny charm in its real-life interactions and voyeuristic view into two lives and the goings on around them.
