Peter Hujar’s Day (2025)
Director: Ira Sachs Run Time: 76 min. Rating: NR Release Year: 2025
Starring: Ben Whishaw, Rebecca Hall
Country: United States, Germany, United Kingdom, Spain
Language: English
About the film:
World Premiere, 2025 Sundance Film Festival. The photographer Peter Hujar, whose images exist in an important lineage and dialogue with the work of groundbreaking gay artists such as Robert Mapplethorpe and David Wojnarowicz, forms the center of the latest movie by fearless independent American filmmaker Ira Sachs.
Based on rediscovered transcripts from an unused 1974 interview by nonfiction writer Linda Rosenkrantz in which she asked Hujar, played by Rebecca Hall and Ben Whishaw respectively, to narrate the events of the previous day in minute detail, Sachs’s film is a mesmerizing time warp, an illustration of the life of the creative mind, the quotidian and the imaginative at once, fully and lovingly inhabited by its two brilliant actors. With this engrossing and wholly unexpected film, Sachs shuttles us back to a specific moment in New York queer cultural history and a still-influential art scene that lives on in words as much as images.
“brilliantly conjures a long-lost artist”
—Richard Lawson, Vanity Fair
About the filmmaker:
Ira Sachs was born in 1965 in Memphis, Tennessee. His feature films include Passages (2023), Frankie (Cannes Competition, 2019), Little Men (Grand Prix, 2016 Deauville American Film Festival), Love is Strange (2014), Keep the Lights On (Teddy Award, 2012 Berlinale), Forty Shades of Blue (Dramatic Grand Jury Prize, 2005 Sundance) and his first feature, The Delta (1996). His short film, Last Address, honoring a group of NYC artists who died of AIDS, has been included in the permanent collections of the Whitney Museum and the MoMA. A 2013 Guggenheim Fellow, Sachs is also the Founding Director of Queer|Art, a non-profit that provides support for LGBTQ+ artists in film, performance, literature and visual arts.
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