Director Ira Sachs (Passages) freely and imaginatively recreates a conversation recorded in 1974 between photographer Peter Hujar (Ben Wishaw) and writer Linda Rosenkrantz (Rebecca Hall). The wonderfully discursive exchange focused on a single 24 hours in the life of Hujar, the brilliant and famously uncompromising artist who was one of the most important figures in downtown New York’s legendary cultural scene of the 70s and 80s. As the photographer vividly describes interactions with leading cultural figures of the day, including Allen Ginsberg and Susan Sontag, as well the challenges of living on limited financial resources in 70s New York, Peter Hujar’s Day transforms unexpectedly into a rumination on both an artist’s life and time itself.