Peter Hujar’s Day

Peter Hujar’s Day revisits a single remarkable afternoon in 1974, when journalist Linda Rosenkrantz invited pioneering queer photographer and activist Peter Hujar to her New York apartment. What followed was an intimate, free‑flowing conversation in which Hujar recounted vivid encounters with cultural icons including William Burroughs, Candy Darling, Susan Sontag and Allen Ginsberg, while reflecting on the texture and tempo of everyday life in 1970s Manhattan.

Drawn from the original transcripts, the film becomes a warm, reflective and quietly mesmerising time capsule — one made all the more poignant by the knowledge that, just over a decade later, Hujar and many of the figures he photographed would be lost to the AIDS crisis. Ben Whishaw delivers a luminous performance as Hujar, joined by Rebecca Hall as Rosenkrantz, under the sensitive direction of Ira Sachs.

A 2025 American biographical drama, Peter Hujar’s Day premiered at the Sundance Film Festival on January 27 before its theatrical release in the United States on November 7 through Janus Films and Sideshow.