Credits

Lead Performance: Peter Hujar’s Day

Synopsis

The photographer Peter Hujar, whose images exist in an important dialogue with the work of groundbreaking gay artists such as Robert Mapplethorpe and David Wojnarowicz, forms the center of the latest movie by Ira Sachs (Passages). Based on rediscovered transcripts from an interview by writer Linda Rosenkrantz (Rebecca Hall), in which she asked Hujar (Ben Whishaw) to narrate the events of the previous day in minute detail, Sachs’s film is an illustration of the life of the creative mind, the quotidian and the imaginative at once, fully inhabited by its two brilliant actors.