About this Event
Join us at Book Soup on Saturday, November 15 at 2 p.m. as Linda Rosenkrantz signs copies of her book, Peter Hujar's Day, which honors the legacy of an artist whose life and work embodies the beauty and aching of a generation lost.
We’re honored to celebrate the release of director Ira Sachs's film adaptation of the same name—opening in LA today, November 7, at the Laemmle Royal and AMC Burbank Town Center 8—and to reflect on the creative brilliance of Peter Hujar and the many queer voices lost to AIDS whose art continues to inspire generations.
The photographer Peter Hujar, whose images exist in an important lineage and dialogue with the work of groundbreaking gay artists such as Robert Mapplethorpe and David Wojnarowicz, forms the center of the latest movie by fearless independent American filmmaker Ira Sachs (Passages). Based on rediscovered transcripts from an unused 1974 interview by nonfiction writer Linda Rosenkrantz (played by Rebecca Hall), in which she asked Hujar (Ben Whishaw) to narrate the events of the previous day in minute detail, Sachs’s film is a mesmerizing time warp, an illustration of the life of the creative mind, the quotidian and the imaginative at once, fully and lovingly inhabited by its two brilliant actors. With this engrossing and wholly unexpected film, Sachs shuttles us back to a specific moment in New York queer cultural history and a still-influential art scene that lives on in words as much as images.
Please note this is a signing only. Your ticket includes one copy of Peter Hujar's Day to be handed out at check-in.
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Book Soup, 8818 Sunset Boulevard, West Hollywood, United States
USD 21.98
