Peter Hujar's Day - Ira Sachs

A luminous closed space where Peter Hujar, queer icon of New York’s underground, reveals himself completely. In 1974, Linda Rosenkrantz asked her artist friends to recount their last day, hour by hour. Peter Hujar took part. The lost recording resurfaced as a transcript, and Ira Sachs revives the conversation. A queer portrait about friendship, art, words, and silences, filmed with infinite grace. Ira Sachs (b. 1965) is an American film director whose career started in the 90s. His feature films include Passages, Frankie (Cannes Competition, 2019), Little Men (Grand Prix, 2016 Deauville American Film Festival), Keep the Lights On (Teddy Award, 2012 Berlinale), Forty Shades of Blue (Dramatic Grand Jury Prize, 2005 Sundance) and his first feature, The Delta. His short film, Last Address, honoring a group of NYC artists who died of AIDS, has been included in the permanent collections of the Whitney Museum and the MoMA. A 2013 Guggenheim Fellow, Sachs is also the Founding Director of Queer|Art, a non-profit that provides support for LGBTQ+ artists in film, performance, literature and visual arts.