Peter Hujar's Day
By Ira Sachs
A conversation between photographer Peter Hujar and Linda Rosenkrantz from 1974 sheds new light on New York's art scene and offers an intimate glimpse into the photographer's life.
The film is screening at Kunstnernes Hus Kino as part of Special Import – our series for artistically ambitious films without Norwegian theatrical distribution. Peter Hujar's Day is also part of our program series Artist Portrait. The series is supported by the Norwegian Film Institute.
Before each edition of the Artist Portrait series, we present a chapter from artist Tarje Eikanger Gullaksen's animation A four finger thing in itself. Read more below.
Where
Cinema
Peter Hujar was an American photographer known for his black-and-white portraits of members of the LGBTQ+ community in New York's East Village in the 1970s and 80s. Based on audio recordings from one day in the photographer's life, the conversation between Hujar and author Linda Rosenkrantz is recreated. Director Ira Sachs, most recently behind the critically acclaimed Passages, combines documentary and fiction in a quiet chamber piece about creativity and loneliness.
Short film
A Four Finger Thing in Itself (2025) is an animated film about the relationship between the spirit and the hand, inspired by a chance encounter between the character Thing from The Addams Family and Immanuel Kant’s theory of knowledge.
The animated film is made by the artist Tarje Eikanger Gullaksen and is presented on this occasion in five parts. Gullaksen was educated at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts in Copenhagen and has shown his works at venues such as Kunstnerforbundet (Oslo), Hermetiske Skygger (Oslo), Oplandia Senter for samtidskunst (Lillehammer), UKS (Unge Kunstneres Samfund) (Oslo), VEDA (Florence), Etablissement d’en face (Brussels), Krome Gallery (Berlin), Sprengel Museum (Hannover), and Artspeak (Vancouver).
Title
Peter Hujar's Day
Directed by
Ira Sachs
Year
2025
Languages
English
Subtitles
Norwegian
Duration
1h 16min
Age limit
9
