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Charles de Agustin is an artist-filmmaker based in Brooklyn exploring questions between critique, access, intimacy, and capture. Select 2023-24 solo screenings include Gene Siskel Film Center, Chicago; Maysles Documentary Center, New York; Arts + Literature Laboratory, Madison; and Spectacle Theater, Brooklyn. Group exhibitions, screenings, and performances include New Contemporaries / South London Gallery & Firstsite, England; Ann Arbor Film Festival, Michigan; Kassel Dokfest, Germany; RISD, US; Alternative Film/Video, Belgrade; ISFF Nijmegen, Netherlands; Alliances & Commonalities, Stockholm; Athens Film + Video Festival, Ohio; and Revolutions per Minute Festival, Boston. de Agustin participated in the Locarno BaseCamp Academy (2023), Center for Book Arts’ Fine Press Seminar (2023), and Saas-Fee Summer Institute of Art (2020). Grants include New York State Council on the Arts (2024), The Elephant Trust (2021), and Mansfield-Ruddock Art Prize (2021). Writing about de Agustin’s work has recently appeared in Filmmaker Magazine, cinemóvil nyc, and Screen Slate. de Agustin earned a BFA in filmmaking and philosophy at Rutgers University and an MFA in studio art at the University of Oxford.
Current 2024 projects include a NYSCA-funded film/exhibition expanding from Mission Drift (2023), as well as a short playing with ideas around didacticism and discipline. de Agustin works full-time at an art foundation, also having taught and programmed at various institutions.
Recent select works (reverse chronological):
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