"Peter Hujar's Day", interview with the director Ira Sachs

"Peter Hujar's Day" is the last title directed  by Ira Scahs, the acclaimed American director who was in Berlinale last year with "Passages". Starring Ben Whishaw who is again the lead in this new film. A day in the life of the famous photographer of  the underground and intellectual New York of the 70's, the most creative and rebellious moment of American culture, told directly by him in a recording session for a collective book , that never happened. A fascination for him and that era only experienced at its end Ira Sachs tells us he came to New York after mid-Eighties , the end of that era that is narrated in the film. "Peter Hujar's Day" glorifies and describes how a group  of people that shaped culture and imagery of a whole generation and beyond were friends or acquaintances , and how fascinating this was for a young aspiring film director. The challenge of  transforming a conversation into a film Ira Sachs had a big challenge to overcome: all he had was a book that transcript the conversation and it needed to be animated to be narrated on screen. The location became the key element to help doing that, and the different rooms the actors used, and their physical dynamics worked toward this objective.