Special Presentations
Peter Hujar’s Day
Ira Sachs’s new film stars Ben Whishaw 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 1970s and 1980s. 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. A Janus Films release.
Southeast premiere
DIRECTOR
Ira Sachs
PRODUCERS
Jordan Drake
Jonah Disend
WRITER
Ira Sachs
CAST
Ben Whishaw
Rebecca Hall
ABOUT THE DIRECTOR
Ira Sachs is a New York City-based filmmaker whose feature films include Passages, Little Men, Love is Strange, Keep the Lights On, and Forty Shades of Blue, winner of the 2005 Sundance Dramatic Grand Jury Prize. Sachs’ work is in the permanent collections at MoMA and the Whitney Museum of Art. In 2009, Sachs founded Queer|Art, a nonprofit arts organization that provides mentorship and support for queer and trans artists across disciplines and generations.