You Are Not I
A post-punk film classic, unavailable for almost twenty years, this beautiful adaptation of a Paul Bowles short story follows a woman escaped from a mental institution.
A haunting adaptation of a 1948 short story by Paul Bowles about a woman who escapes from an asylum, You Are Not I played widely in the international film festival circuit in the early Eighties. Then, a leak in a New Jersey warehouse destroyed the negative, leaving director Sara Driver with only a battered, unprojectable copy. Miraculously, a print was found among the holdings of Paul Bowles in 2009, and now the film has been restored and is available once again. Undoubtedly one of the most impressive works to emerge from the post-punk downtown scene, the film was beautifully shot by Jim Jarmusch (who also co-wrote the screenplay) and features Suzanne Fletcher, Nan Goldin and Luc Sante.
You Are Not I was preserved with The Lois Bianchi Award, a grant from The Women’s Film Preservation Fund of New York Women in Film and Television.
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