David Wojnarowicz

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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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Total trailers found: 32

ITSOFOMO Trailer (1991)

01 January 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.

Heroin Trailer (1981)

01 January 1981

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

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

01 January 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.

Promises: Through Congress Trailer (2021)

24 April 2021

Promises: Through Congress is a collaboration between Julie Mehretu, electronic music composer Floating Points aka Sam Shepherd, and filmmaker Trevor Tweeten.

Beautiful People Trailer (1988)

01 January 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.

Super 8 Trailer (1988)

01 January 1988

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

Self-Portrait in 23 Rounds: a Chapter in David Wojnarowicz’s Life, 1989–1991 Trailer (2019)

09 February 2019

Political artist, painter, writer, performer and photographer David Wojnarowicz was one of the leading personalities of the 1980s New York art scene.

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

10 June 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 year period.

Arthur Rimbaud in New York Trailer (1978)

01 January 1978

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

Phil Interviews David Wojnarowicz Trailer (1990)

01 January 1990

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

American Obsessions Trailer (1983)

01 January 1983

Richard Kern’s 1983 film "American Obsessions" features David Wojnarowicz interacting with plaster heads from his “Metamorphosis” sculpture series.

Bust Trailer (1991)

01 January 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.

By the Dawn's Early Light Trailer (1994)

01 January 1994

An intriguing, powerful work, portraying a journey through the dark, ugly underbelly of a rough and disturbed America.

Abuse Trailer (1983)

15 April 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.

Postcards from America Trailer (1995)

28 April 1995

In the midst of the AIDS crisis, a young man from the suburbs moves to the big city of New York and ends up working as a hustler.

Wojnarowicz: Fuck You Faggot Fucker Trailer (2020)

15 April 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.

A Fire in My Belly Trailer (1990)

01 March 1990

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

Where Evil Dwells Trailer (1985)

27 September 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.

Silence = Death Trailer (1990)

16 February 1990

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

Manhattan Love Suicides Trailer (1985)

01 January 1985

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

Cockabunnies Trailer (1981)

01 January 1981

In 1981, David Wojnarowicz befriended twenty-one year-old Sophie Breer, an artist and co-worker at the Peppermint Lounge.

You Killed Me First Trailer (1985)

01 January 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.

Relax Be Cruel Trailer (2023)

17 June 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.

Listen to This Trailer (1992)

01 January 1992

Listen to This is a fragment of collective memory that finds critical relevance in contemporary Queer discourse.

When I Put My Hands on Your Body Trailer (1989)

01 January 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.

Stray Dogs Trailer (1985)

01 January 1985

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

Fear of Disclosure Trailer (1989)

24 September 1989

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

All I can feel is the pressure Trailer (1989)

01 December 1989

David Wojnarowicz speaking before his death. Tens pounds of pressure, tens pounds of rage

Around Clown Trailer (1987)

04 March 1987

A collaboration between David Wojnarowicz and Steve Doughton.

Unfinished film (sequence in memory of Peter Hujar) Trailer (1987)

01 January 1987

Immediately after David’s friend and mentor, photographer Peter Hujar, died of AIDS in a New York hospital on November 26, 1987, David took Super 8 images of Peter’s body and photographed Peter's face, hands, and feet.

Summer '89 Trailer (2021)

03 June 2021

In the summer of 1989 Marion, David and François Pain took a camera with them to the Adirondacks lakes region of New York State.

The Virginia Tripping Film Trailer (1985)

01 January 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, Luis Frangella and more painting naughty murals while on acid.