Peter Hujar ... space there might be between life and death feels so thin that we might be able to glimpse through it if we try hard enough, that Hujar seems to freeze in time.
"Peter Hujar's Day" makes the case that every moment of our lives, no matter how mundane, has value. Peter's (Whishaw) recounting of 24 hours of his own life opens a window into the art milieu of ...
In the lilting, graceful Peter Hujar’s Day the ... snuffed out by the HIV/AIDS crisis, Hujar deserves broader recognition than he got during his short life. Sachs, a true believer in the ...
In Peter Hujar’s Day, Whishaw and Hall’s characters have a conversation about just that: a day in the life of the American photographer, best known for his black-and-white portraits.
Below, I spoke to Sachs about his approach to adapting Rosenkrantz’s slim tome, what his film has to say about the artist’s life in the 1970s and now, and the classic independent short films that ...
“There are very few films that depict the life of an artist in a way that is easy to connect to,” said Films Boutique COO and head of acquisitions Gabor Greiner. “In Peter Hujar’s Day Ira ...