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David Wojnarowicz

David Wojnarowicz

David Wojnarowicz was an American painter, photographer, writer, filmmaker, performance artist, and AIDS activist prominent in the New York City art world.

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Movies Starring David Wojnarowicz (18)

All the Beauty and the Bloodshed (2022)

The life of internationally renowned artist and activist Nan Goldin is told through her slideshows, intimate interviews, ground-breaking photography, and rare footage of her personal fight to hold the Sackler family accountable for the overdose crisis. ...

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

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 ...

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Wojnarowicz: Fuck You Faggot Fucker (2020)

A collage-like, incisive look at the life of writer, painter and thinker David Wojnarowicz, whose powerful, unapologetic way of seeing the world gave voice to queer rights at a critical time in US history. ...

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By the Dawn's Early Light (1994)

An intriguing, powerful work, portraying a journey through the dark, ugly underbelly of a rough and disturbed America. Resembling a Situationist d rive, images from the streets of New York and the Las Vegas strip mingle with prison-like structures. Laid ov ...

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Listen to This (1992)

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 ...

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Bust (1991)

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. ...

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A Fire in My Belly (1990)

Experimental short film that explores themes of religion, violence, and gender/masculinity. ...

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Silence = Death (1990)

AIDS victims and activists cope with hardship and society's ignorance. ...

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Phil Interviews David Wojnarowicz (1990)

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

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Around Clown (1987)

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

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Where Evil Dwells (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 ...

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You Killed Me First (1985)

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 wit ...

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Stray Dogs (1985)

A fan tries to get an artist's attention by literally coming apart. ...

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Manhattan Love Suicides (1985)

A series of short films by Richard Kern: Stray Dogs, Woman At The Wheel, Thrust In Me, & I Hate You Now. ...

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The Virginia Tripping Film (1985)

Carlo McCormick was invited to curate an East Village Art show at a gallery in Richmond, Virginia. Filmmaker Tessa Hughes-Freeland took filmic evidence of the infamous exhibition that featured downtown artists such as David Wojnarowicz, Marilyn Minter, Lui ...

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Abuse (1983)

Brutally abused by his parents, teenage Thomas finds comfort in associating with a film director who is making a documentary about physical child abuse. The two fall in love, and the elder is faced with the decision of either running away with Thomas or fo ...

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American Obsessions (1983)

Richard Kern's 1983 film "American Obsessions" features David Wojnarowicz interacting with plaster heads from his "Metamorphosis" sculpture series. Kern went on to create two more films with David, "Stray Dogs" from his series Manhattan Love Suicides, 198 ...

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Pompeii New York, Part 1: Pier Caresses (1982)

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 ...

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Movies Made By David Wojnarowicz (14)

Relax Be Cruel (2023)

Filmed in 1983 in New York at Pier 34, this film takes place at an abandoned storehouse which was left at the mercy of the elements and open to anonymous homosexual encounters and to having its walls covered with gigantic frescos by underground artists. Th ...

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Promises: Through Congress (2021)

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 ...

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Postcards from America (1994)

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. ...

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By the Dawn's Early Light (1994)

An intriguing, powerful work, portraying a journey through the dark, ugly underbelly of a rough and disturbed America. Resembling a Situationist d rive, images from the streets of New York and the Las Vegas strip mingle with prison-like structures. Laid ov ...

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ITSOFOMO (1991)

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 ...

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A Fire in My Belly (1990)

Experimental short film that explores themes of religion, violence, and gender/masculinity. ...

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Fear of Disclosure (1989)

An exploration concerning the act of revealing to a potential lover that one is seropositive to HIV, the virus believed to cause AIDS. ...

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When I Put My Hands on Your Body (1989)

The series of five videos Collaborative Film Collection made in collaboration with Marion Scemama in 1989 is emblematic of Wojnarowicz's artistic practice, it unfolds through performance, films, photographs, texts and paintings. Taking a highly subjective ...

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Beautiful People (1988)

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. ...

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Super 8 (1988)

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

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Around Clown (1987)

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

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Where Evil Dwells (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 ...

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Heroin (1981)

Unfinished David Wojnarowicz film that was salvaged by Marion Scemama from Fales Library. ...

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Arthur Rimbaud in New York (1978)

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

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