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Asia Argento On Herself And 'Scarlet Diva' - Fall/Winter 2000There’s a space in my heart, a little room left free since I preferred to read Villon instead of Dylan Thomas, who drowns in his read tears in a tumult of unexpressed emotions; and now that my life is sliding towards unknown things like an olive in its oil, I’ve started to use that “turbo” piece of my heart that ignites only at certain speeds. My film it’s a hymn to those who don’t know what they’re losing when they’re losing time. A hymn to all the badly written fairy tales and the worst moments, in other words, for me it was the only reason to live when I didn’t want to do it or was forced to. God will not get angry with me for writing this because there’s no God who’d ever be mad at someone. Martin Buber said that Hitler forced believing and non believing Jews to talk about God, and this is only one of his minor misdeeds: because either God talks, and you get to listen, or you talk to God, praying, but you never talk WITH God. To me, religion is only one of the million problems. I was forced by my education (I am Italian, I was born in Rome, near the Vatican) to talk about mysticism, because it’s even harder not to talk about it, even though Wittgenstein would not agree. Talking about God is possible, actually inevitable, for both the believer and the non-believer. When we let religion enter our, philosophical, theological, esthetical, political and “cinematical” equations the limit between believer and non-believer, faith and non-faith, withers away. My film is about God, not ONLY sex, drugs and rock’n’roll. There’s nothing in life as close to maternity as filmmaking. It is the ultimate creation. Scarlet Diva is my first child, something to protect and love. At the end of the pregnancy the child is out and you have to let it go. It doesn’t belong to you anymore, but to the rest of the world. If you’re strong enough to have a dream, not only it will come true, but also it’s already happening. A question of synchronicity: dreams provoke reality. This is why I can romantically sentence that this film was a matter of life or death for me. I didn’t do this film to go to parties wearing my director’s badge, or masturbating over a certain fascination. I never thought about being an artist, but more of an artillery. All I look for through my work is that tiny space where I believe beauty (sincerity) is hidden. For beauty I don’t mean something absolute, something designed by reason (rules); I mean that moment in which there are ideal conditions, in which your nerves, blood, heart and spirit – or “geist” as Musil would put it, are mutually reciprocal, pulsating unitedly. Locations, actors, photography. As my ex-hero Harmony Korine would put it, they all have to get close to the suspended image into the author’s head. The heimat, or, place of origin. Everything that’s behind (the camera?): the intangible mystery. While making this film I had the outmost confidence into the infernal mincing machine that is cinema, which goes on no matter what obstacles, errors and curses. Films have their own private lives, and just as if it was my daughter I am so excited to see her walk her first steps into the world, and now, France. I feel like a very proud Italian mamma. Asia Argento
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