Driver 23 / The Atlas Moth

Featured on the Sundance Channel

As an antidote for the bloated, manufactured rock stars of the MTV generation, these films are packed with stranger-than-fiction human comedy and down-to-earth realism. Driver 23 (72 mins.) and The Atlas Moth (75 mins.) document 7 years in the life of Dan Cleveland, a Minneapolis-based rock guitarist/deliveryman and his band, Dark Horse. In spite of, or because of a complex obsessive-compulsive disorder, Dan is driven by an existential need to simply accomplish. An intense optimist, he meets all obstacles to his musical ambitions with uncanny determination, amazing perseverance, and strange "inventions" which visualize frustrations and make tangible the workings of his mind.