Interview: Ira Sachs Discusses Peter Hujar’s Day with Azazel Jacobs

The “making of,” in which process is made visible through behind-the-scenes chronicles—documentaries, YouTube tutorials and explainers of all sorts—is its own journalistic genre. These pieces invariably fixate on the facts. When it comes to feature films, for example, this camera, this number of shooting days and this set of references are the currency exchanged between artist and reader. Offering transparency through specificity, these exchanges are a hallmark of this magazine, so, in his dialogue below with fellow filmmaker Azazel Jacobs, director Ira Sachs (Passages, Keep the Lights On, Forty Shades of Blue) comes prepared to share. Their conversation about the […]