David Wojnarowicz
Actor · 1954 – 1992 · 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.
Movies12
Movie5.1DocumentaryAIDS victims and activists cope with hardship and society’s ignorance.
Silence = Death
1990 · 7 votes
Movie4.9DramaBrutally 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.
Abuse
1983 · 7 votes
Movie7.3DocumentaryA 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.
Wojnarowicz: Fuck You Faggot Fucker
2020 · 26 votes
Movie6.7HorrorA fan tries to get an artist's attention by literally coming apart.
Stray Dogs
1985 · 10 votes
Movie5.7DramaHorrorA series of short films by Richard Kern: Stray Dogs, Woman At The Wheel, Thrust In Me, & I Hate You Now.
Manhattan Love Suicides
1985 · 13 votes
Movie5.6HorrorThrillerLoosely 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.
Where Evil Dwells
1985 · 5 votes
Movie7.0Experimental short film that explores themes of religion, violence, and gender/masculinity.
A Fire in My Belly
1990 · 2 votes
Movie4.7DramaHorrorElizabeth 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!"
You Killed Me First
1985 · 25 votes
MovieDocumentaryListen 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.
Listen to This
1992
MovieAn 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 over the collage is the voice of artist and gay activist David Wojnarawicz relating stories of personal anguish and acts of violence.
MovieComedyA collaboration between David Wojnarowicz and Steve Doughton.
Around Clown
1987
MovieDocumentaryPolitical 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.