Sleepwalk

Directed by Sara Driver | 75 minutes | 15+ | Australian Restoration Premiere

4pm, Sunday, 4th February | Buy Tickets | Buy Passes

A succession of odd scenes play out in the desolate, spooky Lower East Side of Manhattan, after a woman is asked to translate an ancient Chinese manuscript.

Somewhere between what is real, and what is fantastic... When Nicole, a young copy-shop employee, is hired to translate an ancient Chinese manuscript, she soon finds that the document has strange powers that little by little begin to exert an eerie influence over her life. Influenced by Jacques Rivette and Andrei Tarkovsky, and lensed by Jim Jarmusch and Frank Prinzi (Day of the Dead, Do The Right Thing), Sara Driver's feature debut (briefly featured in Nan Goldin doc All The Beauty and the Bloodshed) is a hidden gem of mid-'80s No Wave filmmaking ripe for rediscovery, screening here from a beautiful 2K scan.

"A luminous, oddball comic fantasy... the most visually ravishing American independent film of 1986." - Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader

Country: USA
Year: 1986
Language: English