 Shot in six days on a $12,000 budget, it developed a following soon after a well-received premiere at the Public Theater, only to be pulled out of circulation when a warehouse fire destroyed the film's negative.Rarely seen, it was still championed by renowned critics and film journals like Jonathan Rosenbaum and "Cahiers du Cinéma", which hailed "You Are Not I" as one of the best films of the 1980s.Considered 'lost' for many years, a print was later discovered among Bowles's belongings.