Film
Sleepwalk
- 7PM
A No Wave classic from the 80s Manhattan demimonde, Sara Driver’s trancelike puzzle film is a surrealist’s delight in which a woman translating an ancient Chinese scroll finds that the manuscript exerts a strange influence over her life. Strikingly shot by Jim Jarmusch, Sleepwalk “belongs on its own dreamy wavelength, offering its chiseled beauty, delicate textures, and disquieting wit to any spectator game enough to climb inside” (Jonathan Rosenbaum).
Print courtesy of the Sara Driver Collection at the Academy Film Archive.
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