Film Screening — Peter Hujar’s Day

Ira Sachs, 2025, 76 min, USA, English, DCP

In 1974, acclaimed photographer Peter Hujar describes the routines and rituals that define an artist's life to his friend, the writer Linda Rosenkrantz, capturing a single day's activities in touching and funny detail: from interactions with cultural icons of the day, including Allen Ginsberg, William S. Burroughs and Susan Sontag, to the texture and energy of downtown New York in its heyday. Ben Whishaw and Rebecca Hall star in the elegant and intimate new piece from filmmaker Ira Sachs (Passages) — a dazzling showcase for the two performers at its center — that is both a masterful portrait of a time and place and a captivating film about the way art emerges from the intimate details of everyday life.

“In a mere 76 minutes, director Ira Sachs and his virtuoso actors, Ben Whishaw and Rebecca Hall, have captured a specific world in universal terms and made a film for the ages.” – Peter Travers

“The film honors Hujar not by impersonating him, but by doing exactly what he did in a different medium: demanding we look long and hard at the world.” – Washington Post

“Peter Hujar’s Day captures that elusive feeling of the past catching up with the present, in a city alive with whispering ghosts.” – TIME