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Actress and director Asia Argento created this mesmerising series of film shorts exclusively for SHOWstudio, presented as a 'video diary' with films uploaded at 12:00, 18:00 or 00:00 GMT each day between 16 and 25 October 2006. These shorts, captured during Argento's London promotion of the feature film Marie Antoinette, draw on DIY reportage aesthetics but are actually painstakingly directed by Argento and Nick Knight.
The films intertwine reality with fantasy, sometimes following a script devised by author Emma Forrest and hence blurring the line between fiction with reality. Interspersed amongst the narrative are films exploring the theme of 'Twenty-three words beginning with 'F',' sparking monologues on everything from fetish to Florence and allowing a tantalising and candid insight into Argento's mind (or perhaps not).
Originally presented as entries on the SHOWstudio blog, the comments made by SHOWstudio users are displayed alongside the films here, forming a narrative in themselves of viewers perceptions of Argento's actions and the suspension of disbelief as they follow the fiction/fact narrative of this unique film series.
Please note: A selection of the original 2006 films have become corrupted and cannot be shown. They are represented by stills and the original viewers' commentary from the SHOWstudio blog.
00:18 21 Oct 2006
What do you think about web pages like www.odetoazia.com, or fotologs like www.fotolog.com/_azia_, webpages entirely dedicated to you, how do you feel about this? Do you like this? Since you're an actor i imagine you must be used to the exposure. But still, do you like it? On the same subject, do you like being famous? Having all these people thinking they know who you are Or would you rather be an anoymous person?
00:20 21 Oct 2006
See, you do not fake your life, look at this clip right now, is it fake? It does not look like that to me.
00:58 21 Oct 2006
Is there anything that embarasses you? Why do you share with the public (friends and not) all these private things? Do you feel the need to do it? Don't you ever feel shame (I mean "pudore") for yourself or for those people you talk about (boyfriends, your father, ecc)? I'm not blaming you, I'd just like to know why you are so at sight with the media.. as a friend, I'd just like to know how your mind works..
00:59 21 Oct 2006
You seem very sincere but the phonecalls sound so totally fake. The guy (morgan) is totally not convincing.it makes me have doubts about the pregnancy which is a terrible thought of me if its for real and you have to make this decision about this growing life inside of you. Even if you were very cool at the doctor (get rid of the baby)Besides that you also have this big sensitivity.
03:39 21 Oct 2006
I want people to stop saying 'fake' and just watch. Why do people ask about embarassement and your daughter's feelings? It seems like people want to take your pure rawness and turn into their (our) fearful and fake lifestyle. I guess that is only human nature... try to break what you don't know. xx
03:49 21 Oct 2006
"pure rawness"(?!) I am moved by the prose. A literati circle of model bookers.
05:33 21 Oct 2006
rawness is pure. what other word should people use if not fake? And it never was her daughters feeelings more as it was doing somthing you might regret without think of the consequences. If I had a child I would not want them to know some things if I did some things. It's a protective nature. I don't want Asia's lifestyle.
08:04 21 Oct 2006
To totally digress for a moment: how's your foot? Did that slimy-looking application help? And now...a question, more to the posters here than to Miss Asia: Is it really so disturbing to discover that, when the Fantasy is stripped away, the Star is actually human with problems and issues and happinesses and sorrows so completely their own and is so much like any one of us? That's what I'm getting from the comments left on these entries. Fake or not, it seems these moving digital pages are saying things that people don't like...that's making them too introspective.
09:30 21 Oct 2006
you talk alot about the past I am intrigued to hear if you think about what is to come in the future.Can you guess your own destiny,where you might be some time from now?
09:32 21 Oct 2006
yeah ,good question maria n ,what is over the horizon Asia?
13:08 21 Oct 2006
I'm still watching.
14:39 21 Oct 2006
this is an art project and these comments are a part of the fabric. However banal and pithy most of these comments are, they say something, and it could almost be said that the true subject of this work is the voyeur- not the exhibitionist....
22:22 21 Oct 2006
Not putting an emphasis on what is already a such an intense thing, can seem as if you are disregarding the actuall true essence of how simple sex really is.
06:30 22 Oct 2006
hello my friend... as honest as ever i see. your friend, billy23 - the portals kid xxxxxx