Movies: David Wojnarowicz

  • 2020
    The Business of Thought: A Recorded History of Artists Space

    The Business of Thought: A Recorded History of Artists Space (2020)

    The Business of Thought: A Recorded History of Artists Space

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    An oral history of Artists Space, the legendary New York artists organization. Told through the voices of the artists, critics and curators who formed it, the film is narrated by voiceover culled from 30 hours of archival cassette tape interviews ove...

    The Business of Thought: A Recorded History of Artists Space
  • 1987
    Around Clown

    Around Clown (1987)

    Around Clown

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    A collaboration between David Wojnarowicz and Steve Doughton....

    Around Clown
  • 1988
    Super 8

    Super 8 (1988)

    Super 8

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    Recreated from existing Super-8 films and audio collage by David Wojnarowicz....

    Super 8
  • 1991
    Bust

    Bust (1991)

    Bust

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    A close up head and shoulders of David Wojnarowicz, is the only image. He speaks with characteristic candor and ferocity about his experience being a person with AIDS....

    Bust
  • 1992
    Listen to This

    Listen to This (1992)

    Listen to This

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    Listen to This is a fragment of collective memory that finds critical relevance in contemporary Queer discourse. Tom Rubnitz weaves narration, image, and a form of temporality, dislocated from ‘real time’, into a video where artist and AIDS activist ...

    Listen to This
  • 2019
    Self-Portrait in 23 Rounds: a Chapter in David Wojnarowicz’s Life, 1989–1991

    Self-Portrait in 23 Rounds: a Chapter in David Wojnarowicz’s Life, 1989–1991 (2019)

    Self-Portrait in 23 Rounds: a Chapter in David Wojnarowicz’s Life, 1989–1991

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    Political artist, painter, writer, performer and photographer David Wojnarowicz was one of the leading personalities of the 1980s New York art scene. In an interview conducted in 1989 by cultural theorist Sylvère Lotringer, Wojnarowicz speaks candidl...

    Self-Portrait in 23 Rounds: a Chapter in David Wojnarowicz’s Life, 1989–1991
  • 1978
    Arthur Rimbaud in New York

    Arthur Rimbaud in New York (1978)

    Arthur Rimbaud in New York

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    1978–79. Slideshow, approx. 7 min. Courtesy the Estate of David Wojnarowicz and P.P.O.W, New York....

    Arthur Rimbaud in New York
  • 1969
    All I can feel is the pressure

    All I can feel is the pressure (1969)

    All I can feel is the pressure

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    David Wojnarowicz speaking before his death. Tens pounds of pressure, tens pounds of rage...

    All I can feel is the pressure
  • 1990
    Phil Interviews David Wojnarowicz

    Phil Interviews David Wojnarowicz (1990)

    Phil Interviews David Wojnarowicz

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    Phil Zwickler interviews David Wojnarowicz about a NEA project grant for a gallery show....

    Phil Interviews David Wojnarowicz
  • 1988
    Beautiful People

    Beautiful People (1988)

    Beautiful People

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    Beautiful People was one of the last films David Wojnarowicz made before his death. The film follows Jesse Hultberg as he makes himself up in drag and ventures out onto the streets of New York, then beyond the city limits to a quiet lakeside....

    Beautiful People
  • 1969
    Unfinished film (sequence in memory of Peter Hujar)

    Unfinished film (sequence in memory of Peter Hujar) (1969)

    Unfinished film (sequence in memory of Peter Hujar)

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    Immediately after David’s friend and mentor, photographer Peter Hujar, died of AIDS in a New York hospital on November 26, 1987, David took Super 8 images of Peter’s body and photographed Peter's face, hands, and feet. David created Unfinished film ...

    Unfinished film (sequence in memory of Peter Hujar)