FILM UND FOTO KLUB // Peter Hujar's Day

Join us for the final FILM UND FOTO KLUB of the year taking place at , screening Peter Hujar's Day (2025) directed by Ira Sachs.

Film copy //

Ben Whishaw and Rebecca Hall star in the stunning new film from Ira Sachs, a richly cinematic rendering of the meeting of acclaimed photographer Peter Hujar and writer and artist Linda Rosenkrantz.

Recorded in 1974, Hujar describes the routines and rituals that define an artist's life, capturing a single day's activities in touching and funny detail: from interactions with cultural icons of the day, including Allen Ginsberg, William S. Burroughs and Susan Sontag, to the texture and energy of downtown New York in its heyday.

Both elegant and intimate — and a dazzling showcase for the two performers at its centre — PETER HUJAR’S DAY is both a masterful portrait of a time and place and a captivating film about the way art emerges from the intimate details of everyday life

About The Artist //

Peter Hujar ( October 11, 1934 – November 26, 1987) was an American photographer best known for his black-and-white portraits. Hujar's work received only marginal public recognition during his lifetime,but he has since been recognized as a major American photographer of the 1970s and 1980s.

Peter Hujar died of AIDS in 1987, leaving behind a complex and profound body of photographs. Hujar was a leading figure in the group of artists, musicians, writers, and performers at the forefront of the cultural scene in downtown New York in the 1970s and early 80s, and he was enormously admired for his completely uncompromising attitude towards work and life. He was a consummate technician, and his portraits of people, animals, and landscapes, with their exquisite black-and-white tonalities, were extremely influential. Highly emotional yet stripped of excess, Hujar’s photographs are always beautiful, although rarely in a conventional way. His extraordinary first book, Portraits in Life and Death, with an introduction by Susan Sontag, was published in 1976, but his “difficult” personality and refusal to pander to the marketplace insured that it was one of the last publications during his lifetime.

Ticketing //

This event has a limited capacity and you must book in order to attend. Both free or donation tickets are available. It is thanks to the generosity of our pay-what-you-can audiences and Patreon members that we are able to programme public events on this basis. Please consider purchasing a donation ticket if you are able to do so.

Accessibility //

The cinema room is unfortunately not wheelchair accessible. The cinema and various other areas including the toilets are only accessible through a series of steps ranging between 5-10 steps. There is plenty of breakout space available in-venue, but this may be loud and busy with other members of the public.