CURTOCIRCUÍTO 2023. ANTOINE D'AGATA. Meeting with directors

Curtocircuíto is an international festival that was created in 2003 on the initiative of Santiago de Compostela City Council with the aim of promoting short film creation. Since then, it has gradually consolidated itself to become one of the benchmark festivals for independent film creation in Spain. In recent years, the festival has evolved to become an interdisciplinary event which, whilst maintaining film as its main focus, includes other disciplines such as photography, sound art, ethnography, music and literature in its programme.

In line with this desire to delve deeper into the permanent intertwining of disciplines, the CGAC joins the twentieth edition of the Curtocircuíto international film festival to host a meeting between the public and the French photographer and filmmaker Antoine D’Agata; a creator who, in his images, has taken his body to almost unexplored extremes.

Addiction, sex and prostitution or marginality are often highlighted as the main themes of his work. However, beyond these clichés, the key issues that stand out in his work are fragility, suffering, fear and a certain obsession with degeneration. D’Agata has spent years exploring his own limits, showing a superhuman capacity to rise above himself. And if photography has been his lifeline, film appears in his career as a strange drifting of ethereal mirages where Antoine handles time with a ghostly naturalness.

ANTOINE D’AGATA (Marseille, 1961) is a French photographer and film director. He moved to New York in 1983 and lived there for ten years. In 1990, his interest in photography led him to enrol at the International Center of Photography, where he was taught by Larry Clark and Nan Goldin. After working for the editorial department of Magnum Photos in New York for a short period (1991-1992), he returned to France and temporarily abandoned his work as a photographer. In 1998 his first work, De Mala Muerte, was published, and two years later, in 2001, he received the Niépce Prize for the publication of a second work entitled Hometown. In 2003, his exhibition 1001 Nuits was inaugurated in Paris, on the occasion of which two other titles were published: Vortex and Insomnia. In 2004 he joined Magnum Photos and published with them what would become his fifth book, Stigma.

Since 2005 he has been travelling around the world working on a personal project about nightlife, particularly in Japan, where he also shot his first feature film, Aka Ana.

More information and advance registration at: www.curtocircuito.org