“Two very different and accomplished films about female identity, Sara Driver's You Are Not I and Leslie Thornton's Adynata are both dialectically conceived; there the resemblance ends. The first is a very close adaptation of a Paul Bowles story written in the late 1940s, filmed in black and white (cinematography by Jim Jarmusch), about a psychic and territorial war fought between two sisters, one of them a schizophrenic. The second is a non-narrative film about the ideological configurations and semiotic constructions of the East as seen by and filtered through the West, particularly in relation to the female figure--articulated through many different kinds of found material and variable film stock.” --Jonathan Rosenbaum

You Are Not I

Directed by Sara Driver. Written by Driver and Jim Jarmusch, adapted from a story by Paul Bowles. Photographed by Jim Jarmusch. Music by Phil Kline. With Suzanne Fletcher and Melody Schneider. (1981, 50 mins, Print from Filmmaker)