Peter Hujar's Day

BAFTA winner Ben Whishaw (BBC’s This Is Going To Hurt) reunites with Passages director Ira Sachs (Love is Strange, Little Men) and joins Golden Globe nominee Rebecca Hall (Vicky Cristina Barcelona) in Sachs’s stunning new film, a richly cinematic rendering of photographer Peter Hujar’s 1974 meeting with writer and artist Linda Rosenkrantz.

A brilliant photographer, gay liberation activist and man-about-town, Hujar describes the routines and rituals that define an artist's life to Rosenkrantz – capturing a single day in his world, meeting with cultural icons of the day like Allen Ginsberg, William S. Burroughs and Susan Sontag, and participating in the vibrant creative scene of 1970s New York. 

A dazzling showcase for the two performers at its centre – Peter Hujar’s Day is both a masterful, elegant portrait of a very particular time and place and a captivating look at the way art emerges from the intimate details of everyday life.