"It's almost like the story of light is the story of the film. It's the story of a day, the story of time passing, the story of portraiture, Hujar clearly being a portrait maker, of humans and of animals and of objects. And for me, light conveys emotion based on space and time. It is really kind of the second text of the film."
"Peter Hujar isalso a particularly uniquely gifted storyteller in the sense that if you asked me to tell you what I did yesterday, it would not be as rich as what Peter is able to do. He's really kind of an extraordinary narrator. Like the details are the details of something written but unwritten. That's also in Ben's performance. He took an approach in which there's a kind of egalitarianism."
A 1974 recorded conversation collected by Linda Rosencrantz served as the source material for the film Peter Hujar's Day. The film stages that transcript with Ben Whishaw as photographer Peter Hujar and Rebecca Hall as Linda Rosencrantz. The film uses shifting natural and cinematic light to map the passage of a day, to evoke memory and emotion, and to reflect Hujar's practice as a portrait maker of humans, animals and objects. The film foregrounds detailed storytelling and attentive listening, emphasizing the texture of small domestic moments and the emotional resonance of time.
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