A conversation between photographer Peter Hujar and Linda Rosenkrantz from 1974 sheds light on New York's vibrant downtown art world and the introspective journey of an artist's life.
Hujar (Ben Wishaw) was a brilliant photographer and stylish gay man of the 1970s and 80s, associated with Andy Warhol and Robert Mapplethorpe and part of a hip New York coterie of artists and intellectuals. In 1974, he took part in a kind of documentary nonfiction project undertaken by author Linda Rosenkrantz (Rebecca Hall), in which he simply came to her apartment and recounted into a tape machine everything that happened to him on a certain day. Through their freewheeling, intimate exchange, Hujar shares vivid stories of his interactions with literary and cultural icons like William Burroughs, Candy Darling, Susan Sontag and Allen Ginsberg, and what initially feels like art world name-dropping gossip quickly becomes an intriguing time capsule of life in New York’s 1970s downtown scene.
USA/Germany/UK 2025 Ira Sachs 76m
