Name: Peter Hujar's Day at Speed Cinema
Start: 2025-12-05T18:00:00-05:00
End: 2025-12-05T19:30:00-05:00
Location: Speed Art Museum

Peter Hujar’s Day
Directed by Ira Sachs
Friday, December 5, 6 pm
Saturday, September 6, 3 and 6 pm
Sunday, September 7, 3 pm
$12 | $8 Speed members
“The diaristic film spins compacted time into something free-flowing, expansive, illuminating, and emotionally resonant, all of it achieved with elegant restraint.”—David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter
Ira Sachs’s new film, Peter Hujar’s Day, stars Ben Wishaw and Rebecca Hall in a richly cinematic rendering of a conversation recorded in 1974 between photographer Peter Hujar and writer Linda Rosenkrantz.
Their talk that day focused on a single 24 hours in the life of Hujar, the brilliant and famously uncompromising artist who was one of the most important figures in downtown New York’s legendary cultural scene of the 70s and 80s.
Set entirely in Linda’s Manhattan apartment, the film freely and imaginatively recreates that long-ago afternoon and the wonderfully discursive exchange between these two singular individuals. As the photographer vividly describes interactions with leading cultural figures of the day, including Allen Ginsberg and Susan Sontag, as well the challenges of living on limited financial resources in 70s New York, Peter Hujar’s Day transforms unexpectedly into a Bloomsday-like rumination on both an artist’s life and time itself. 2025, U.S., DCP, 76 minutes. Recommended for 17+.