You Are Not I (film)
| You Are Not I | |
|---|---|
| Directed by | Sara Driver |
| Written by | Sara Driver Jim Jarmusch |
| Based on | "You Are Not I" by Paul Bowles[1] |
| Produced by | Sara Driver Jim Jarmusch |
| Starring | Suzanne Fletcher Evelyn Smith Lucy Sante Nan Goldin |
| Cinematography | Jim Jarmusch |
| Edited by | Sara Driver |
| Music by | Phil Kline |
Release date |
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Running time | 48 minutes[1][2] |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $12,000[1] |
You Are Not I is a 1981 American drama film directed by Sara Driver and starring Suzanne Fletcher, Evelyn Smith, Nan Goldin, and Lucy Sante.[1] The film is based on the 1948 short story of the same name by Paul Bowles.
Summary
[edit]Adapted from a Paul Bowles story, a young mentally disturbed woman named Ethel (Flectcher) escapes from the asylum where she is treated until she is mistaken for one of the survivors of a deadly car accident she stumbled upon. Then she is taken to her sister's home.[3][4]
Production
[edit]The film was shot in six days for $12,000 as a thesis film for New York University.[1][5]
It played widely at international film festivals, but a leak at a New Jersey warehouse destroyed the negative leaving Driver with a battered unprojectable copy. It was thought to have been lost,[1] until a print was found at the holdings of Bowles.[6][7]
Rediscovery
[edit]It has since been released on the DVD set "Driver X4: The Lost and Found Films of Sara Driver".[2]
References
[edit]- ^ a b c d e f Dennis Lim (March 16, 2012). "Sleepwalking in Fantasy Worlds Like This One". The New York Times.
- ^ a b "Driver X4: The Lost and Found Films of Sara Driver". Amazon.
- ^ The New Yorker
- ^ The Criterion Channel
- ^ New York Women in Film & Television
- ^ Film at Lincoln Center
- ^ Slant Magazine