Rolf Belgum's fantastical documentary Driver 23 stumped viewers at our "true or faux" doc series Some of These Stories Are True, but it's all too real. The film built a cult following after screenings at PFA, the Whitney Biennial, and other venues. The follow–up, premiering here, is a rock'n'roll saga fueled by mood elevators and anything but elevator music.

Driver 23
By day, Dan Cleveland is a courier for a delivery service, his hair pulled back in a presentable ponytail. But at night he lets his hair down and haunts the makeshift recording studio in the dank basement of his home. Cleveland, a wannabe rockster, has spent years struggling to compose a heavy metal CD for his faltering band Dark Horse. Driven to succeed, he has triumphed over most obstacles-departing band members, faulty equipment, deteriorating health-but one obstacle proves too formidable: his lack of talent. With crazed ingenuity, Cleveland persists, popping Prozac and Zoloft to keep the fires in his head quenched, mending everything else with duct tape. He is the Horatio Alger of the metal set, powered by equal shares of heavy mettle and light fantasy.

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Dan Cleveland is back! And his long–awaited LP, "Guts Before Glory," is ready to burn. It just needs a little remix, some cover art, a merchandising boost, and then his heavy metal dreams will come to pass, rust and all. Why rust? The tellingly titled album has been oxidizing in Cleveland's full–metal imagination for years, even though metal mania has tarnished over time. But Cleveland, quelled by meds, is still repairing his jerry–rigged world, held together with cable ties and herniated muscles. Belgum's follow–up is about the hidden passion that drives that old nag called Dark Horse.