Wednesday, November 2, 2022
7:00pm
BETWEEN BRIDGES
Adalberstrasse 43
Berlin, Germany
A night of screenings plus a talk by Gary Schneider to celebrate the third printing of Peter Hujar’s Day by Linda Rosenkrantz, published by Magic Hour Press. The night will include the first screening in Europe of a rare film Peter Hujar shot.
SCREENINGS:
Salters Cottages by Gary Schneider
16 min
This 16 minute 16mm silent film was shot in a community of identical Cape Cod cottages on a promontory overlooking Gardiner’s Bay in Springs, Long Island. The cottages are close together, and the film explores the voyeurism and exhibitionism of its residents. The performers are John Erdman, Peter Hujar, Suzanne Joelson and Gary Stephan and is an homage to Jean Genet’s Un Chant d’Amour (1950).
Hujar / Palermo by Moyra Davey
4 min
Davey’s film is a meditation on Hujar through Portraits in Life and Death (Da Capo Press, 1976), the only book Hujar published in his lifetime.
Aunte Belle Emme by Peter Hujar
6 min
Peter Hujar, widely known for his square black and white photos of the downtown New York scene of the 70s and 80s, also experimented with film. Aunte Belle Emme (a play on the word antebellum) stars experimental drag performer Ethyl Eichelberger playing the title character. Stylistically, the film is reminiscent of both Hujar’s photos and of films from the silent era. This film has rarely been shown and will be the first time it is screened in Europe.
Special thanks to Joe E. Jeffreys for providing this footage.
Screen Test [ST157]: Peter Hujar by Andy Warhol
4 min
From 1964-66, Andy Warhol made hundreds of silent, black and white film portraits of the downtown New York cultural scene, all shot in the same deadpan style. It can be noted that Hujar’s screen test became part of a series Warhol made called The Thirteen Most Beautiful Boys (Paul Thek was also featured). Additionally, Warhol’s nickname for Hujar’s screen test was “the boy who never blinks” because Hujar is totally still and barely blinks throughout.