The Cambodian room

Written and directed by Tommaso Lusena and Giuseppe Schillaci

With Antoine D’Agata

Produced by Downtown Pictures Kolam Productions with the support of CNC PPROCIREP and ANGOA

SYNOPSIS

Antoine D’Agata, a photographer from Magnum Agency, is in Phnom Penh (Cambodia). Drugs, sex and nights out 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 and pusher of Ice, a South East Asia drug similar to Crack. Antoine lives a kind of desperate and paradoxical « 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, like Kerouac, Artaud and Bacon.

Torino Film Festival 2009: Special Prize of the Giury Italiana.Doc

Premio Doc/it Professional Award 2010

CINEMA.DOC- il Documentario in Sala 2010: Prize AUGUSTUS COLOR

Best Photography &Prize CINECITTÀ LUCE Best Film

Via Emilia DocFest 2010: Prize Selection DOC

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