Agathe is a vignette about family and loss. It is a story of a young woman’s attempt to reconnect with her father ten years after his passing. Blurring the line between documentary and fiction, heart-wrenching testimonies are juxtaposed with nature and elements of the surreal. Filmed in Big Sur, California, the film follows Agather as she oscillates between grief, remembrance, and freedom.
“Her film cuts feel like a thoughtful curation of the delicate vow she makes to her subject to document whilst keeping an intentional stage that leaves the subject safely held. Transparency has never meant knowing everything. Transparency is an ambition to marry vulnerability, it’s a fake marriage of impermanence. We can’t drag around our tragedy like a pile of glass cans trailing us from the ceremony that never happened. Just married. Just here.”
