The bare life draws us into a hallucinating journey: from the incandescent set of a city under lockdown, with the rare survivors wandering aimlessly, to a hospital where the nurses and the patients carrying the virus are applying a daily ritual of life and death gestures. Antoine d’Agata transforms these opaque spaces into a theatre of shadows, freed from all pretences of reality, and obliterates the very surface of things, the skin of beings and the skin of the world, only to better reveal its tragic dimension.

La vie nue takes us on a hallucinated journey, from the incandescent setting of the confined city, where the rare survivors wander without reason, to the hospital, where the gestures of caregivers and patients carrying the virus become rituals of life and death. . Antoine d´Agata transforms these opaque spaces into a shadow theater emptied of any semblance of reality and obliterates the very surface of things, the epidermis of beings and of the world, to reveal its tragic dimension. The film La vie nue was made from photos of the work Virus by Antoine d'Agata, carried out during confinement linked to the coronavirus pandemic, in the streets and hospitals.

The acclaimed work of photographer Antoine d’Agata has mostly been a journey into the heart of darkness, dealing with random and nightly encounters, sex and prostitution. So it's no surprise that the monumental White Noise leads again to the underworld of sex workers, from Cambodia to Norway, from Ukraine to USA. Built around more than 20 monologues, this films delivers trance-like visions of women in rapture induced by sex or narcotics.

Renowned French photographer and Nan Goldin disciple Antoine D'Agata offers this visual essay of Tokyo prostitution circuits that isn't for the easily offended. By exploring the prostitutes' filthy working rooms and capturing the sex workers as they service clients, shoot heroin, and masturbate with their own blood, D'Agata effectively shatters the standard perception of the porn industry.