A photographer documents his nightly expeditions through Japan’s world of sex for hire.

Filmed across 120 nights in Japan’s brothels and presented in 120 fragments ― divided into 6 chapters and 6 female prostitutes.

Aka.Ana.2008.DVDRip.x264-PTP.mkv

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Runtime: 	59 min 44 s
Size: 	985 MiB
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https://nitro.download/view/0FBFD92D94B3ABF/Aka.Ana.2008.DVDRip.x264-PTP.mkv

Language(s):Japanese
Subtitles:English (Softsubbed), French (Hardcoded)

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Synopsis
The short film “La vie nue” (The Bare Life) is based on Virus, a series of pictures taken by Antoine d’Agata in the streets and the hospitals during the lockdown caused by the COVID-19 pandemic.
(imdb)

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“When we discovered the photos that Antoine d’Agata took during the lockdown, we immediately thought of shooting a film for the 3e Scène. We saw it as an occasion to reveal this moment where creation cannot be expressed in closed theatres, but through unexpected media. Far from the operatic art, The bare life shows time standing still in these overcrowded hospitals and desolate cities.”

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.

Antoine d’Agata (Director)

193MB | 7m 53s | 3840×2160 | mkv

https://nitro.download/view/BF2C5D2D8F18D0E/La_Vie_Nue_(Antoine_d’Agata,_2020).mkv

Language(s):No dialogue
Subtitles:English Intertitles

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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.

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No voyeurism here as d’Agata’s frank aesthetics make us wonder about what we see and feel, and about the very nature of reality. These bodies and words seem to dissolve and imprint in our minds at the same time in apexes of beauty and pain. White Noise has to be watched with the words of the artist in mind: “there’s neither god nor forgiveness in the night, but rather accepting that only flesh is. Flesh is fullness. Death is a void.”

3.92GB | 3 h 58 min | 1920×1080 | mkv

https://nitro.download/view/CE7B54288FA89D9/White_Noise.mkv
or
https://nitroflare.com/view/9ABB5021D225228/White_Noise.part1.rar
https://nitroflare.com/view/1B3A7DE11C47755/White_Noise.part2.rar
https://nitroflare.com/view/5458E5EEAD6AEC3/White_Noise.part3.rar
https://nitroflare.com/view/B1EB1D55D8CB6FC/White_Noise.part4.rar

Language(s):Multiple
Subtitles:English hardcoded for foreign parts

The post Antoine d’Agata – White Noise (2019) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

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. ~ Jason Buchanan, Rovi

700MB | 59:43 | 688 x 384 | avi

http://nitroflare.com/view/B85CE83F0474A8A/aka_ana.avi
http://nitroflare.com/view/C93F365E8069577/aka_ana-eng.srt

Language(s):Japanese, French
Subtitles:French hardcoded,English

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A man with no emotional ties, a survivor of a long journey, collects giddy images, scattered fragments of a splintered identity like the regions he crosses through. He wears himself out with the strangeness of signs, places, and unfathomable languages. There is no god or indulgence in his nights, but the acceptance that there is only flesh.
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A disturbingly beautiful film that mesmerises, appalls and saddens, French Magnum photographer Antoine d’Agata’s film Atlas takes his camera into the dark and dangerous world of prostitution and drugs. It is a complex and darkly disconcerting film, bleakly watchable but shot with a stark elegance that is at odds with the dank and dingy environments he shoots in.

Sad and painful images, and a strikingly bleak film.

Filming a series of sad and bleak tableaux he depicts naked and partially naked women posing sadly; men and women taking drugs; animals being killed and attacked, all shot as a series of beautifully composed oil paintings.

He depicts a dark hellish world where prostitution and drug abuse leaves the human body ruined, emaciated and tortured. The voiceovers from various prostitutes – “I feel no pleasure…I’m like a puppet on a stage” and “Here we bury the dead and fuck the living” – match the sad and often plaintive images.

Antoine d’Agata films and takes voiceovers from around the world – locations include Kiev, Mumbai, San Jose, Sofia, Bangkok, Oslo, Tripoli, Tokyo and Paris, and while there is nothing sexually titillating about the film whatsoever – in fact scenes of a bloody dogfight and of a goat being slaughtered will likely raise more debate then the naked bodies – the film is brutally honest about the links between prostitution and drugs.

Much of the film is shot is deep shadows with figures drifting in and out of the light, though towards the end d’Agata presents as series of pale and sad women crouched and curled against the backdrop of a white bathroom. Sad and painful images, and a strikingly bleak film. – by Mark Adams, screendaily.com

2.52GB | 1 h 16 min | 1920×1080 | mkv

https://nitro.download/view/A658793C329B4EE/Atlas(2013)HDTV.1080.mkv
http://nitroflare.com/view/7087A79B77330F5/Atlas.2013.720p.ArteHD.web-dl.srt

Language:Mixed English, Indi, Russian, Khmer, Spanish
Subtitles:French hardcoded, English

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