Close to the Knives

Name: Close to the Knives
Genre: Documentary, Western
Released: 2026-01-17

2026·1m·★ 0.0

Documentary Western

Original Super-8 footage shot in Monument Valley and Texas’s Guadalupe Mountains illustrates an excerpt from David Wojnarowicz’s stream-of-consciousness memoir.

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