Catalog - The City Library

Format:

DVD, Videorecording, Projected Medium, Visual Materials

Title:

Wojnarowicz / World of Wonder presents ; producer, Fenton Bailey and Randay Barbato ; produced and directed by Chris McKim.

Publisher, Date:

[New York] : Kino Lorber, [2021]

Description:

1 videodisc (104 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.

digital

optical

video file

DVD video

Summary:

A fiery and urgent documentary portrait of downtown New York City artist, writer, photographer, and activist David Wojnarowicz. As New York City became the epicenter of the AIDS epidemic in the 1980s, Wojnarowicz weaponized his work and waged war against the establishment's indifference to the plague until his death from it in 1992 at the age of 37. Exclusive access to his breathtaking body of work, including paintings, journals, and films, reveals how Wojnarowicz emptied his life into his art and activism. Rediscovered answering machine tape recordings and intimate recollections from Fran Lebowitz, Gracie Mansion, Peter Hujar, and other friends and family help present a stirring portrait of this fiercely political, unapologetically queer artist.

Subjects:

Wojnarowicz, David.

Photographers -- New York (State) -- New York -- Biography.

Authors -- Biography.

Artists -- New York (State) -- New York -- Biography.

Gay activists -- New York (State) -- New York -- Biography.

Genre:

Documentary films.

Nonfiction films.

Biographical films.

Video recordings for the hearing impaired.

Other Author: