PETER HUJAR’S DAY Trailer: Ben Whishaw Embodies the Iconic Photographer in Ira Sach’s Intimate Recreation
Following their collaboration on the explosive romantic drama Passages, director Ira Sachs and star Ben Whishaw reunite for an intimate, verité-like portrait of a famed 20th-century photographer. Peter Hujar’s Day stars Whishaw and Rebecca Hall as NYC-based photographer Peter Hujar and writer Linda Rosenkrantz, respectively, as it depicts a conversation recorded in 1974 between the two. Sachs directs from his own screenplay, adapted from Rosenkrantz’s book of the same name and recordings of the interview.
Shot on 16mm by cinematographer Alex Ashe, it premiered at the Sundance Film Festival to huge acclaim before screening at the Berlin International Film Festival. The film will also screen at the New York Film Festival as part of the Main Slate section. Janus Films has now released the official trailer ahead of its theatrical release on November 7.
Here’s the official synopsis:
Ira Sachs’s new film, Peter Hujar’s Day, stars Ben Wishaw 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 70s and 80s. 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. As the photographer vividly describes interactions with leading cultural figures of the day, including Allen Ginsberg and Susan Sontag, as well the challenges of living on limited financial resources in 70s New York, Peter Hujar’s Day transforms unexpectedly into a Bloomsday-like rumination on both an artist’s life and time itself.
Watch the trailer for Peter Hujar’s Day below.
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