David Wojnarowicz
Nacimiento : 1954-09-14, Red Bank, New Jersey, USA
Muerte : 1992-07-22
Historia
David Wojnarowicz was an American painter, photographer, writer, filmmaker, performance artist, and AIDS activist prominent in the New York City art world.
Self
Sigue la vida de la artista Nan Goldin y su activismo contra la dinastía farmacéutica de los Sackler, responsables de la mayor epidemia de opioides de la historia de Estados Unidos.
Other
Promises: Through Congress is a collaboration between Julie Mehretu, electronic music composer Floating Points aka Sam Shepherd, and filmmaker Trevor Tweeten. This 46-minute film features Mehretu’s expansive painting Congress (2003) and Promises (Luaka Bop, 2021), the acclaimed album from Floating Points and jazz titan Pharoah Sanders featuring the London Symphony Orchestra. Filmed on location at The Broad in Los Angeles.
Self
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 over a 45 year period. Artists such as Laurie Anderson, Mike Kelley, Hito Steyerl and David Wojnarowicz walk us through the decades. A formally-experimental and raucously-told chronology composed of rare archival documentation, The Business of Thought... is a reminder of the radical potential of the arts and the importance of collective, cultural spaces.
Self
A medida que Nueva York se convertía en el epicentro de la crisis del SIDA, el arte de David Wojnarowicz se volvía más airado y franco, y su poderosa forma de ver el mundo tuvo un increíble impacto en la lucha para los derechos de los homosexuales. En esta exploración de su vida, a modo de collage Chris McKim mezcla hábilmente sus cuadros, fotos, películas, mensajes y conversaciones grabadas con recuerdos de amigos y familiares.
Himself (archive footage)
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 candidly about intimate moments in his life, the creative process, sexuality, AIDS, and coming to terms with one’s own death - at a time when society categorically refused to face up to the AIDS epidemic.
Story
Inspired by the autobiographical writings of David Wojnarowicz, "Postcards From America" chronicles the abuse the artist suffered as a child at the hands of his father and his subsequent running away to New York to become a street hustler.
Narrator
A road movie with David Wojnarowicz guiding the viewer through the images of a rough and disturbed America.
Writer
A road movie with David Wojnarowicz guiding the viewer through the images of a rough and disturbed America.
Himself
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 David Wojnarowicz’s loss and anger is palpable.
Director
ITSOFOMO (In the Shadow of Forward Motion) is a multimedia performance collaboration created by artist David Wojnarowicz and composer/musician Ben Neill in 1989. Integrating music, text, and video in a multi-dimensional format, the work embodies the act of acceleration and its sensory manifestations. It is through this frame that Wojnarowicz addressed the accelerating AIDS crisis and the politics of AIDS in the United States at that moment.
Himself
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.
Himself
AIDS victims and activists cope with hardship and society’s ignorance.
Himself
Experimental short film that explores themes of religion, violence, and gender/masculinity.
Director
Experimental short film that explores themes of religion, violence, and gender/masculinity.
Himself
Phil Zwickler interviews David Wojnarowicz about a NEA project grant for a gallery show.
Cinematography
An exploration concerning the act of revealing to a potential lover that one is seropositive to HIV, the virus believed to cause AIDS.
Editor
An exploration concerning the act of revealing to a potential lover that one is seropositive to HIV, the virus believed to cause AIDS.
Writer
An exploration concerning the act of revealing to a potential lover that one is seropositive to HIV, the virus believed to cause AIDS.
Director
An exploration concerning the act of revealing to a potential lover that one is seropositive to HIV, the virus believed to cause AIDS.
Music
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.
Editor
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.
Director
Recreated from existing Super-8 films and audio collage by David Wojnarowicz.
Director
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.
A collaboration between David Wojnarowicz and Steve Doughton.
Director
A collaboration between David Wojnarowicz and Steve Doughton.
Writer
Loosely based on an infamous 1984 Long Island murder case involving Satan-worshiping, teenage drug freaks (Knights of the Black Circle), David Wojnarowicz and Tommy Turner’s Where Evil Dwells is a low-budget D.I.Y. movie that walks the jagged lines between splatter flick, experimental film and transgressive art. The original footage was destroyed in a fire and the only footage that survived is this 28 minute preview that was put together for the Downtown New York Film Festival in 1985.
Fan (segment "Stray Dogs")
A series of short films by Richard Kern: Stray Dogs, Woman At The Wheel, Thrust In Me, & I Hate You Now.
Editor
Loosely based on an infamous 1984 Long Island murder case involving Satan-worshiping, teenage drug freaks (Knights of the Black Circle), David Wojnarowicz and Tommy Turner’s Where Evil Dwells is a low-budget D.I.Y. movie that walks the jagged lines between splatter flick, experimental film and transgressive art. The original footage was destroyed in a fire and the only footage that survived is this 28 minute preview that was put together for the Downtown New York Film Festival in 1985.
Cinematography
Loosely based on an infamous 1984 Long Island murder case involving Satan-worshiping, teenage drug freaks (Knights of the Black Circle), David Wojnarowicz and Tommy Turner’s Where Evil Dwells is a low-budget D.I.Y. movie that walks the jagged lines between splatter flick, experimental film and transgressive art. The original footage was destroyed in a fire and the only footage that survived is this 28 minute preview that was put together for the Downtown New York Film Festival in 1985.
Loosely based on an infamous 1984 Long Island murder case involving Satan-worshiping, teenage drug freaks (Knights of the Black Circle), David Wojnarowicz and Tommy Turner’s Where Evil Dwells is a low-budget D.I.Y. movie that walks the jagged lines between splatter flick, experimental film and transgressive art. The original footage was destroyed in a fire and the only footage that survived is this 28 minute preview that was put together for the Downtown New York Film Festival in 1985.
Director
Loosely based on an infamous 1984 Long Island murder case involving Satan-worshiping, teenage drug freaks (Knights of the Black Circle), David Wojnarowicz and Tommy Turner’s Where Evil Dwells is a low-budget D.I.Y. movie that walks the jagged lines between splatter flick, experimental film and transgressive art. The original footage was destroyed in a fire and the only footage that survived is this 28 minute preview that was put together for the Downtown New York Film Festival in 1985.
Fan
A fan tries to get an artist's attention by literally coming apart.
Dad
Elizabeth bristles at the religious directives of her parents, asserting her right to personhood outside demure hairstyles and turkey dinners, constructing voodoo dolls and entertaining other manners of dark drawing in her dank emo-den. When confronted with the humanity and hypocrisy of her tormentors, the young antihero vanquishes their belief systems (and bodies) asserting, "You killed me first!"
Street Interviewee
Thomas (Raphael Sbarge) es un adolescente de 14 años que sufre fuerte abusos por parte de sus padres. En su camino se cruza Larry (Richard Ryder), un director de cine que está rodando un documental sobre niños que son víctimas de maltrato. Larry decide contar con Thomas para su película, y terminarán por enamorarse el uno del otro. Entonces, Larry tratará de sacar a Thomas del infierno que está viviendo en casa...
A crumbling pier, its walls covered with graffiti and erotic frescoes reminiscent of pagan Pompeii, the locus of the seduction rituals of men longing for men, is the focus of this meditation on gay cruising at the height of sexual freedom before AIDS. Shot in 1982, this is the first segment of a film capturing the life, death, and rebirth of the legendary “sex piers” over the last three decades.
Editor
Unfinished David Wojnarowicz film that was salvaged by Marion Scemama from Fales Library.
Director
Unfinished David Wojnarowicz film that was salvaged by Marion Scemama from Fales Library.
