FACTS
Drama, 75 minutes, upcoming
Director / Writer: Ira Sachs
Producers: Jordan Drake Productions, One Two Films
Cast: Ben Whishaw, Rebecca Hall
SYNOPSIS
A film adaptation of the book, Peter Hujar’s Day, by Linda Rosenkrantz. It invites audiences into a single day in 1974 with groundbreaking queer photographer Peter Hujar. Set entirely in one room, the film re-creates the conversation between Hujar and Rosenkrantz, recorded on audio tape nearly fifty years ago and later published as a book. Through their freewheeling, intimate exchange, Hujar shares vivid stories of his interactions with literary and cultural icons like William Burroughs, Candy Darling, Susan Sontag and Allen Ginsberg, while also reflecting on the rhythms of everyday life in 1970s New York.
DIRECTOR: Ira Sachs
Ira Sachs is a filmmaker whose eight features films have premiered at the Cannes, Sundance, Toronto and Berlin Film Festivals and include his most recent, Passages, also with Ben Whishaw, as well as Frankie, with Isabelle Huppert and Marisa Tomei, Love is Strange, with John Lithgow and Alfred Molina, and Forty Shades of Blue, winner of the Sundance Grand Jury Prize. His short film, Last Address, an elegy to the generation of New York City artists lost to the AIDS epidemic, is in the permanent collection at the Whitney and MoMA. Recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, Sachs is the Founding Director of Queer|Art, an arts organization created to support LGBTQ+ artists across disciplines and generations.
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