4/28/2023 0 Comments Filmtag crack![]() He didn’t care that this would end up being an intimate portrait of D’Agata himself and his intense struggle to continue his work and his mode of living. THIS DARING VOYAGE of a famous magnum-photographer bring to mind – not only his own film Aka Ana about a group of Cambodian prostitutes and an unknown man’s voyage into his hell – but certainly also The Heart of Darkness: a director’s nightmare, the portrait made of Francis Ford Coppola’s journey while making Apocalypse Now. This will go through sex, but only at the beginning, then we arrive to violence, pain, sorrow and indifference.” ![]() As he says: “to find more perverse ways to know the other. ![]() This refuge is D’Agata’s attempt to avoid oblivion, his attempt not to forget about reality.ĭ’Agata wishes to discover a new method, a method to go further into the unknown. The room is also the name of a small apartment in which he spends his time with a Cambodian prostitute. As D’Agata says: ”it’s not only to take pictures, but it‘s how I see the world and how I live it.” The Cambodian Room is the name of a place where he can investigate his own limits, to see if he can bear it. Somewhere between a portrait, an extended interview and travel documentary, The Cambodian Room presents a critical ethical study – that investigates the relationship between being an artist and simultaneously affirming a particular mode of existence. THE MAGNUM PHOTOGRAPHER Antoine D’Agata needs to be in what he calls “a primal state of being” to be able to take his pictures.
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