Sara Driver
Independent filmmaker Sara DRIVER (1956, USA) has a degree in theatre and classics and studied at NYU’s Film School. Her first short film, You Are Not I (1982) was based on a short story by Paul Bowles and was immediately applauded by renowned critics. Her feature debut, Sleepwalk (1986), became an instant prizewinner. Driver has also written and directed several stage plays. Described as an “often overlooked linchpin of the downtown New York independent film scene”, she has collaborated with long-time companion Jim Jarmusch many times and served as a jury member at various prestigious film festivals.
Filmography
You Are Not I (1981, short), Sleepwalk (1986), Monsters (1988-1990, TV series, 1 episode), When Pigs Fly (1993), The Bowery (1994, short doc), Boom for Real: The Late Teenage Years of Jean-Michel Basquiat (2017, doc)
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Sara Driver op IFFR
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Stranger Than Rotterdam with Sara Driver
Lewie Kloster, Noah Kloster | 9' | USA | European premiere
A seedy slice of film history starring Jim Jarmusch, Mick Jagger, and IFFR’s own Hubert Bals as puppets. -
Stranger Than Rotterdam with Sara Driver
Lewie Kloster, Noah Kloster | 9' | USA | European premiere
Available on Festival Scope Pro from 26 January 9:00 CET to 14 February 9:00 CET -
When pigs fly
Sara Driver | 94' | Germany | -
Marianne Faithfull and Seymour Cassell in a melancholy ghost story about spirits who interfere with the living world. -
You Are Not I
Sara Driver | 50' | USA | None
The haunting story of a young woman who escapes from a mental hospital during the chaos of a nearby multiple-car accident. -
Sleepwalk
Sara Driver | 75' | USA | None
Magic realism in 1980s Lower East Side. Dreamy No Wave cinema in which a Chinese manuscript seeps into a translator’s life. -
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