Peter Hujar

But there are footsteps here.

And it's made by Nan Golden, Peter Hujar, James Baldwin, Judith Butler, Juna Barnes, Emily Dickinson.

I said, oh, I thought I was so alone.

I thought I had to take this big leap of courage to jump off the road.

yeah this is the man i love by iris sax folks who have listened to previous festival dispatches and previous years in review know that i really love the work of iris sax i find him sensitive yes but more so restrained and surprisingly distanced in a way that is emotionally frustrating and intellectually fascinating because he's gone from passages which is like basically a bonkers sex drama that imagines a chaotic love triangle that ruins everyone's relationships.

He goes from that to Peter Hujar's day, which is taking an archival transcript of a real conversation between two artists and playing it out with kind of meta-narrative Brechtian distancing to remind you that this is not the real deal.

Set in New York shortly before the AIDS epidemic destroys this world.

And The Man I Love is kind of combining those two movies thematically and in topic.

But, like, if

you have a reason to, Eli, if you have a reason to make it short, like, what you're saying, like, kind of almost, like, on purpose leaving shit out, that's interesting.

And then also, like, Peter Hujar is, like, way too Brechtian for me, but, like, it's interesting to apply that kind of approach to something more narrative, less, like, almost experimental.

That's kind of interesting.

This is from Michael Lobel.

Wow, I honestly had no idea Peter Hujar photographed George Stoll in 1983.

Incredible.

And there's a picture of that.

That is up, as well as Lauren O'Neill Butler.

Andrew Durbin on Peter Hujar and Paul Tech.

And of course, the great conversation with James Del Borgo, who I think the clip of him, if you haven't seen it on social media, talking about the actual dynamics of Psycho and the difference between the movie and the book.

Pretty great stuff if you haven't seen it.