PETER HUJAR'S DAY

Official Selection-Sundance Film Festival, 2025

International Premiere- Berlin Film Festival, 2025

Original language: English 

Subtitles: Romanian

Directed by: Ira SACHS

Country: US

Year of Production: 2025

Length: 76 minutes

Genre: Biography, Drama, History

Ira Sachs’s new film, Peter Hujar’s Day, stars Ben Wishaw and Rebecca Hall in a richly cinematic rendering of a conversation recorded in 1974 between photographer Peter Hujar and writer Linda Rosenkrantz. Their talk that day focused on a single 24 hours in the life of Hujar, the brilliant and famously uncompromising artist who was one of the most important figures in downtown New York’s legendary cultural scene of the 70s and 80s. Set entirely in Linda’s Manhattan apartment, the film freely and imaginatively recreates that long-ago afternoon and the wonderfully discursive exchange between these two singular individuals. As the photographer vividly describes interactions with leading cultural figures of the day, including Allen Ginsberg and Susan Sontag, as well the challenges of living on limited financial resources in 70s New York, Peter Hujar’s Day transforms unexpectedly into a Bloomsday-like rumination on both an artist’s life and time itself.

Credits: 

Ira SACHS– Director

Ira SACHS– Script

Alex ASHE– Cinematography

Eli COHN–  Sound

Affonso GONÇALVES-Editing