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THE CAMBODIAN ROOM – SITUATIONS WITH ANTOINE D’AGATA

THE CAMBODIAN ROOM – SITUATIONS WITH ANTOINE D’AGATA

Tommaso Lusena de Sarmiento / Giuseppe Schillaci 2009 55 min Italy / France

Kinoteka Zlatna Vrata September 16, 2010 21:00

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THE CAMBODIAN ROOM – SITUATIONS WITH ANTOINE D’AGATA-Tommaso Lusena de Sarmiento / Giuseppe Schillaci

Antoine D’Agata, a photographer from Magnum Agency, is in Phom Penh (Cambodia). Drugs, sex and errance are his autobiographical subjects, but in Cambodia his artistic trail seems to reach an utmost point. After devoting his art to picture desolated landscapes and borderline realities all around the world, Antoine D’Agata focuses his art on body and flesh, in a narrow room. In Cambodia he spends many weeks locked in Lee’s room, a prostitute, smoking Ice, a South East Asia drug similar to Crack. Antoine lives a kind of desperate and paradoxal „love story“ with Lee, smoking dope and trying to take pictures of his intimate relationship with her.
This film catches the hidden part of his art-life; his choice of living sex and drugs as both cure and conviction. An apocalyptic and sublime course, similar to the ones of other heretic artists of contemporary culture, from Kerouac to Artaud, from Bacon to Pasolini.

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Tommaso Lusena de Sarmiento / Giuseppe Schillaci

Tommaso Lusena de Sarmiento
Born in Milan in 1977. After attending the Saint Lucas Film School in Brussels, moved to Berlin, where he prepared his graduating thesis for the Accademia di Brera and directed his first shorts. In 2003, he moved to Rome, where he worked as assistant cameraman on sets for films such as Quiet Chaos by Antonello Grimaldi and The Return of Cagliostro di Ciprì and Maresco.

Giuseppe Schillaci
Born in Palermo on 1978. Graduated in Communication Studies; Master in Show Business Management at the University of Bologna on 2002. Cultural journalist since 2005. On 2010 he published the novel L’anno delle ceneri (Nutrimenti Edizioni).
Since 2004 he works as a free-lance producer and director for documentary films. He is member of EURODOC, Doc It and participated to many pitching forum (Docs Barcelona, Thessaloniki, IDS). He worked as location manager for the docu-fiction “Prove per una tragedia siciliana” by John Turturro (2008); production assistant for the feature film The Palermo Shooting by Wim Wenders (2007). Script-writer and project development manager for the companies Eurofilm and Cinemare (2005-2006).