Postcards from America
Killer Films 30th Anniversary
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1h 27m
Directed by Steve McLean | 87 mins | 1994
Based on the autobiographical writings of David Wojnarowicz and coming hot on the heels of the firebrand artist-activist’s death from AIDS in 1992, Steve McLean’s feature debut remains an underseen landmark of New Queer Cinema. Interwoven are fictionalized episodes from three sections of Wojnarowicz’s life: one “David” is a child in an abusive suburban home; another is a teenage Times Square hustler; the third, a hitchhiker wending his way through the nation’s southwest.
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