"The Outsider" is a montage-based, avant-garde, experimental short film concept loosely based upon HP Lovecraft’s 1926 short story of the same name. Lovecraft’s original tale tells the story of a man, imprisoned for years in a castle tower, yearning to escape to the freedom of the outside world. However, when he does eventually find his way to freedom, he discovers that he has been so hideously twisted and disfigured by his time alone in the darkness of the castle that he is no longer accepted as a member of society. Everywhere that he goes, he is met with horror, and, upon looking into a mirror, he finds that he can no longer even stand the sight of himself.
MY PROCESS
The Outsider is a young man who has spent as much of his life as he can remember in a small stone room with no visible doors or windows, clad only in a pair of threadbare trousers.
The Man in Black is a free agent of an underground organization referred to as The Institute, which is dedicated to studies of pain, fear, and desperation.