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Ira Sachs Interview

Peter Hujar’s Day • 14m

Meet Ira Sachs, the veteran filmmaker whose acclaimed anti-biopic PETER HUJAR’S DAY recreates a day in the life of the legendary photographer. In the following interview, Sachs discusses the challenges of adapting a transcript into a narrative feature, his attention to light and the passage of time, the key collaborators who helped make the film, and how he evoked Hujar’s own approach to portraiture.

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