You Are Not I (film)

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You Are Not I
Directed by Sara Driver
Written bySara Driver
Jim Jarmusch
Based on"You Are Not I"
by Paul Bowles [1]
Produced bySara Driver
Jim Jarmusch
Starring Suzanne Fletcher
Evelyn Smith
Lucy Sante
Nan Goldin
CinematographyJim Jarmusch
Edited bySara Driver
Music by Phil Kline
Release date
  • 1981 (1981)
Running time
48 minutes [1] [2]
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
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.

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Summary

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

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

It has since been released on the DVD set "Driver X4: The Lost and Found Films of Sara Driver". [2]

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