Agatha, now available on Amazon Prime
Celebrating its 3rd anniversary of being honored at the renowned and visionary Bogotá Film Festival, Bogocine, Amazon Prime brings you Agatha, Julián De La Chica's debut film that earned him over 17 awards. The film has been officially selected by more than 30 festivals around the globe.
Because of its unapologetic and often brutally honest subject matter not typically addressed in the Latin American mainstream, Agatha receiving national consideration is a testament to the universality of the simple and highly topical narrative: what lies beneath the surface of the human psyche when confronted with profound loneliness, isolation, and anxiety.
Agatha was inspired by a voyeuristic encounter in the months following De La Chica’s arrival to New York City; looking out the window of the apartment where the film’s director and composer was staying, he noticed a mysterious man that De La Chica felt certain knew he was being watched, but admits he might have imagined that detail. The incident was the impetus behind De La Chica’s solo piano cycle Voyeuristic Images, Op. 10, which underlies Agatha’s starkly intimate imagery and emotional trajectory.