Peter Hujar’s Day - Movie

Peter Hujar’s Day

Ira Sachs
Fiction : 76' / Art & Artists, Friendship, Avantgarde, Portrait

In 1974, writer Linda Rosenkrantz and photographer Peter Hujar tape-recorded a conversation in her New York apartment. The topic of the afternoon was 24 hours in the life of the famously uncompromising Hujar who was regarded as one of the most important characters in downtown New York’s cultural scene of the 1970s and 1980s. This free recreation of that long-ago afternoon describes the discursive exchange between two unique individuals and their interactions with the major cultural figures of the time, including Allen Ginsberg and Susan Sontag, as well as the challenges of living on limited financial resources in 70s New York.

Sections: QL - Panorama
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Year: 2025

Country: USA, Germany

Language: english

Subtitles: portuguese

With: Ben Whishaw, Rebecca Hall

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Ira Sachs

USA

Ira Sachs is an American filmmaker whose films have been screened at major international film festivals such as Cannes, Sundance, and Berlinale. He is the Founding Director of Queer|Art, a national non-profit arts organization created to support LGBTQI+ artists in film, visual arts, performance, and literature.

Photo: Jeong Park

Selection:

2023 – Passages (Feature Film)
2019 – Frankie (Feature Film)
2016 – Little Men (Feature Film)
2014 – Love Is Strange (Feature Film)
2012 – Keep the Lights On (Feature Film)
2010 – Last Address (Short Film)
2007 – Married Life (Feature Film)

2005 – Forty Shades of Blue (Feature Film)
1996 – The Delta (Feature Film)
1992 – Vaudeville (Feature Film)