BOARDING GATE (2007)
Role: Sandra
Director: Olivier Assayas
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UNE VIEILLE MAITRESSE (2007) Role: Vellini
Director: Catherine Breillat
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MOTHER OF TEARS (2007)
Role: Sarah Mandy
Director: Dario Argento
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"I don't know if I was destined to work in films. It sounds kind of sad to put it that way. Life, DNA, destiny, fortune... My sister Fiore doesn't work in films, she's a shoe designer. Was she destined to be that? Sometimes I wonder what would have happened to me if I was the daughter of two plumbers. Would I be one too?"
This site is an official Asia Argento website. However, I'm not Asia Argento herself. Do not send fanmail because Asia won't receive it.
I am not receiving any financial gain from the website. No copyright infringement intended.
Special thanks goes out to my three special collaborators and contributors: Audrey (from France), Beatrice (from Italy) and Stef.
Other Works
Singer
Royalize feat. Azia Argento - La Tua Lingua Sul Mio Cuore (Album: RYLZ)
Mondo Musica feat. Azia - Angel
DJ Gruffetti feat. Asia Argento - Love Ya
Trash Palace feat. Brian Molko and Asia Argento - Je T'Aime, Moi Non Plus (Album: Positions)
Slicker feat. Asia Argento - Hard Track (Album: The Latest)
Hector Zazou feat. Asia Argento - Double Jeu (Album: L'Absence)
Asia sang on the album Lou Etendue by Toog.
She has also lent her vocals to the French band Archigram.
Asia and Morgan created a band called 23 A.M. A. and M. are their initials and 23 is their lucky number. They sing in English and their musical style is electronic. Their music was influenced by the eighties' Depeche Mode and the Deftones.
In addition to these collaborations, Ms. Argento was the muse for the following songs: Aria by Morgan (Album: Canzoni Dell'Appartamento) and Asia Argento by the group Hondo Maclean (Album: Plans For A Better Day).
Writer
She has written three books, two of which were published at an early age. "One was a poetry book and the other was a short novel about Good and Evil... like in the future. It was sort of (like) 'Face Off', these two guys - one was sick of being evil and the other was sick of being good so one became the other... sort of archetype. I was eight when I wrote that. The other I wrote from five to eight. I wrote another book but I lost that and never found it again."
I Love You Kirk - Edizioni Frassinelli, 1999 (Italy)
Je T'Aime Kirk - Éditions Florent Massot, 2001 (France)
Screenplays for 'The Heart Is Deceitful Above All Things', 'L'Assenzio', 'Loredasia', 'Scarlet Diva' and the 'Prospettive' episode from 'DeGenerazione'.
The Nursery Rhyme used in Dario Argento's 'NonHoSonno'. This is the rhyme that all the murders in the film are based around.
"It's now midnight - and in my bed I toss and fight.
This is how the war began with the beasts across the land.
Morning at One - the Farmer has some little boy's fun.
Piggy's throat he quickly slits in victory the battle quits.
Morning at Two - the roosters cock-a-doodle doo.
The instrument for this fine song makes the pleasure nice 'n long.
Morning at Three - the Farmer strangles the chicken wee.
Say's he, 'Won't let me sleep' yet in his bed hears not a peep.
Morning at Four - here's kitty purring at the door.
In the tub for an icy swim and drowning her just for a whim.
Morning at Five - the little rabbit crushed alive.
With rabbit's teeth she bit and fought but in the end it brought her naught.
Morning at Six - now the long swan's neck he'll fix.
When he cuts it from her head he knows that his last foe is dead.
Now it's the break of day - the Farmer in his bed now lay.
With all the weapons at his feet so he could finally go to sleep."
Introduction to the Italian edition of A Child's Life (Vita da Bambina) by Phoebe Gloeckner, Topolin Edizioni.
"'Family is the root of all evil', Fassbinder said, or maybe it was my father, I can’t remember. The first time I discovered Phoebe Gloeckner I was 16 years old, living in New York. I was transfixed by the cover of a book (Re/Search# 13: Angry Women) which showed a terrifying Medusa, in whose locks nestled maybe ten chestnut-colored serpents, rats, fish, bees and little telephones. I don’t recall much else, probably just feverish curiosity (it had the work of performance artists like Diamanda Galas and Carolee Schneemann.) But I do know for certain that what I am today - a young warrior woman - I owe in part to that book. Its Medusa image remains a kind of home base or point of origin for me; it is the witness to my rage.
So when Jorge Vacca of Topolin Edizioni asked me to write a preface to A Girl’s Life by Phoebe Gloeckner, I immediately said, 'Of course, it would be a joy!' And while I truly am pleased - and honored - to do my part to make the work of this great American artist known in Italy, I did not realize that I would have so much difficulty in giving birth to these few words.
How can I describe the hyperreal and cruelly surreal world of Phoebe Gloeckner? Life itself is the material of the artist. Thought itself is the artist’s tool. In any medium, art is always a reflection of humankind and of the times. Coming to terms with oneself is absolutely necessary to life, but few are the artists who risk rendering autobiography universal. Phoebe Gloeckner is one of the greatest illustrators of our time. Her book can neither be read nor described... it can only be endured.
Listen to the beating of my heart in the only possible redemption: Silence."
Translation by Luigi Antonio Vivarini
She is also the author of a number of short stories published in such prestigious magazines as Dynamo, L’Espresso, Sette, Village and Max.
Modeling/Commercials
Renault Max, 2000 (Italy)
Marc Jacobs, 2002
Jeremy Scott, Fall/Winter Collection 2003
Ecko Unltd., Fall 2003
She is the spokesmodel for her sister Fiore's clothing line.
She also participates in some fashion shows from time to time as well.
She was Jimmy Bennett's acting coach for the film 'Hostage' (2005)
Voice
She supplied the voice of the hideously deformed dwarf in Dario's "Phenomena" (1985).
Provided the voice of the young girl in the Italian version of "Opera" (1987), which was also a bit of a frustrating experience because she wanted the part herself.
Voiced the puppet Habagail Folger in "Live Freaky Die Freaky" (2006).
Music: Disco Sux/U Just Can't Stop The Rock/Sad Core (2008)
