"Peter Hujar's Day" — Read, Study, & Download The Screenplay by Ira Sachs
A “nothing day” that turns into a whole novel.
Set in December 1974, "Peter Hujar’s Day" is a deceptively simple premise with razor-sharp results: writer Linda Rosenkrantz records photographer Peter Hujar as he recounts the previous day in obsessive detail. What emerges is funny, intimate, and quietly brutal, a portrait of an artist among artists, measuring his life in cigarettes, errands, phone calls, and the constant hustle of making work in New York.
"Peter Hujar's Day" — Educator Resources & Study Guide
When “Nothing Happens” and Everything Does.
Teach "Peter Hujar’s Day" screenplay as a blueprint for structure built from voice: one room, one tape recorder, and a simple assignment that turns into a full character portrait. The tension isn’t car chases, it’s self-editing. What Peter includes, skips, exaggerates, or corrects becomes the plot, and even a “small lie” becomes a craft lesson in how people perform identity in real time.
Download the full Educator Breakdown (PDF) below for Tone Breakdown, Lessons, Critical Lens, and a classroom exercises.
Peter Hujar's Day (2025) — Classroom Study
A single conversation becomes a time machine. Peter talks, Linda listens, and the day opens up into the downtown art ecosystem: the blur between friendship and networking, art and commerce, confidence and performance. Even Peter’s offhand self-corrections become part of the point: the story isn’t just what happened, it’s how he needs it to sound, and what slips through anyway. Best for readers who like: dialogue-driven character studies, minimalist structure, process-as-drama, New York artist history.
- Make the frame do the heavy lifting.
- Mundane events can still arc.
- Use process as action.
- Let the city enter as subtext.
- Dialogue can be musical without being “writerly”.
- Meta-structure is your secret weapon.
- End on an image that reframes the talk.
"Peter Hujar's Day" One Sheet & Script Intel
Conversation between photographer Peter Hujar and Linda Rosenkrantz from 1974 sheds light on New York's vibrant downtown art world and the introspective journey of an artist's life. Janus Films
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