Peter Hujar’s Day: New York Premiere and Q&A

Premiering on September 26, Ira Sachs’s Peter Hujar’s Day is a Main Slate selection of the 63rd New York Film Festival. The film is based on rediscovered transcripts from an unused 1974 interview by nonfiction writer Linda Rosenkrantz (Rebecca Hall), in which photographer Peter Hujar (Ben Whishaw) narrates the events of the previous day in minute detail.

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Peter Hujar’s Day. Courtesy of Janus Films.

“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.” A Janus Films release.

Q&A with Director Ira Sachs: Saturday, September 27 and Sunday, September 28.