Sleepwalk
Directed by Sara Driver
1987Feature78 minUnited States
Sara Driver's luminous debut, an oddball comic fantasy about ancient Chinese curses and Xerox machines set in Manhattan's Chinatown.
StatusAvailable to book
Release—
Runtime78 min
FormatsDCP · Digital file
On screensReady to book
Synopsis
Sara Driver's first feature — a luminous, oddball comic fantasy about ancient Chinese curses and Xerox machines, set in Manhattan's Chinatown and its immediate environs — may well be the most visually ravishing American independent film of its year (1986).
The director
Sara Driver
Sara Driver is a New York filmmaker and a key figure of the downtown scene. She produced Jim Jarmusch's early features and directed Sleepwalk, When Pigs Fly and Boom for Real: The Late Teenage Years of Jean-Michel Basquiat.
