David Wojnarowicz

David Wojnarowicz

Born: September 14, 1954
Died: July 22, 1992
in Red Bank, New Jersey, USA
David Wojnarowicz was an American painter, photographer, writer, filmmaker, performance artist, and AIDS activist prominent in the New York City art world.

Movies for David Wojnarowicz...

All the Beauty and the Bloodshed
Title: All the Beauty and the Bloodshed
Character: Self (Archive Footage)
Released: November 23, 2022
Type: Movie
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
Title: The Business of Thought: A Recorded History of Artists Space
Character: Self
Released: June 10, 2020
Type: Movie
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.
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Wojnarowicz: Fuck You Faggot Fucker
Title: Wojnarowicz: Fuck You Faggot Fucker
Character: Self
Released: April 15, 2020
Type: Movie
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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Self-Portrait in 23 Rounds: a Chapter in David Wojnarowicz’s Life, 1989–1991
Title: Self-Portrait in 23 Rounds: a Chapter in David Wojnarowicz’s Life, 1989–1991
Character: Himself (archive footage)
Released: February 9, 2019
Type: Movie
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.
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By the Dawn's Early Light
Title: By the Dawn's Early Light
Character: Narrator
Released: January 1, 1994
Type: Movie
A road movie with David Wojnarowicz guiding the viewer through the images of a rough and disturbed America.
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Listen to This
Title: Listen to This
Character: Himself
Released: January 1, 1992
Type: Movie
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.
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Bust
Title: Bust
Character: Himself
Released: January 1, 1991
Type: Movie
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
Title: A Fire in My Belly
Character: Himself
Released: March 1, 1990
Type: Movie
Experimental short film that explores themes of religion, violence, and gender/masculinity.
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Silence = Death
Title: Silence = Death
Character: Himself
Released: February 16, 1990
Type: Movie
AIDS victims and activists cope with hardship and society’s ignorance.
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Phil Interviews David Wojnarowicz
Title: Phil Interviews David Wojnarowicz
Character: Himself
Released: January 1, 1990
Type: Movie
Phil Zwickler interviews David Wojnarowicz about a NEA project grant for a gallery show.
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Around Clown
Title: Around Clown
Released: March 4, 1987
Type: Movie
A collaboration between David Wojnarowicz and Steve Doughton.
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Where Evil Dwells
Title: Where Evil Dwells
Released: September 27, 1985
Type: Movie
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.
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Manhattan Love Suicides
Title: Manhattan Love Suicides
Character: Fan (segment "Stray Dogs")
Released: January 1, 1985
Type: Movie
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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Stray Dogs
Title: Stray Dogs
Character: Fan
Released: January 1, 1985
Type: Movie
A fan tries to get an artist's attention by literally coming apart.
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You Killed Me First
Title: You Killed Me First
Character: Dad
Released: January 1, 1985
Type: Movie
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!"
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Abuse
Title: Abuse
Character: Street Interviewee
Released: March 1, 1983
Type: Movie
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 focusing on his career and thereby letting the boy possibly be beaten to death.
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American Obsessions
Title: American Obsessions
Character: Self
Released: January 1, 1983
Type: Movie
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, 1984 and "You Killed Me First," 1985.
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Pompeii New York, Part 1: Pier Caresses
Title: Pompeii New York, Part 1: Pier Caresses
Released: January 1, 1982
Type: Movie
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.
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All I can feel is the pressure
Title: All I can feel is the pressure
Character: himself
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: Movie
David Wojnarowicz speaking before his death. Tens pounds of pressure, tens pounds of rage