Postcards from America

Year: 1994

Runtime: 92 mins

Language: English

Director: Steve McLean

Drama

Drawing from David Wojnarowicz’s autobiographical texts, the film follows the artist’s harrowing childhood, marked by severe abuse at his father’s hands, and his decision to flee to New York. There he lives on the streets, surviving as a hustler while confronting the trauma that will later shape his art.

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