Films

Fifty one years ago, Linda Rosenkrantz (Rebecca Hall) captured lightning in a bottle when she recorded an intimate and extensive conversation with groundbreaking queer photographer Peter Hujar (Ben Whishaw) and preserved the transcript in a book. In this mesmerizing screen adaptation from Ira Sachs (Passages), the enthralling dialogue comes to life in a vivid time capsule of the 1970s New York arts scene and the inner life of one of the artists who defined it.

Taking place inside a Manhattan apartment over the course of a single day, the film follows Hujar’s reflection on a day in his life. Arresting cinematography and poetically patient storytelling unite to reveal rhythms, struggles, relationships with contemporaries like Allen Ginsberg and Susan Sontag, and small epiphanies that shaped Hujar’s remarkable career in an experimental biopic unlike any other.

“A quietly radical act”
-Chase Hutchinson, TheWrap

“This is a movie you want to live inside.”
-Ryan Lattanzio

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This film will be presented with Open Captions visible on screen. For more information, visit VAFF Accessibility.