Ira Sachs
The great queer photographer PETER HUJAR is celebrated in an exhibit and a film in 2025, 38 years after his death
Peter Hujar was an American photographer best known for his black-and-white portraits which reflected his homosexual milieu. He was an influential artist-activist of the gay liberation movement; in 1969, with his lover, the political activist Jim Fouratt, he witnessed the Stonewall riots in the West Village. In early 1981, Hujar met the young artist David Wojnarowicz, and after a brief period…
Queerguru’s Ris Fatah reviews Ira Sach’s PASSAGES a very human story of a couple in love but one of whom also wants more.
Passages is a sexy, intense drama starring Franz Rogowski Great Freedom) the brilliant Ben Whishaw (An English Scandal) and Adele Exarchopoulos (Blue Is The Warmest Color) A chaotic and often brutal study of a modern relationship, Passages is set in an avant-garde, young Paris. Intense German film director Tomas (Rogowski) is married to…
