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NIFFF Celebrates Asia Argento as Guest of Honor
As this year's guest of honor, Asia Argento programed a series of genre film classics that honed her own artistic perspective.
She has a punk side and never hesitates, and because of her career – which stretches back to the foundational horror films of her father [Dario Argento] towards something more contemporary – she also bridges versions of NIFFF past and present.” The star went for an all-killer-no-filler crop, selecting Michael Powell’s “Peeping Tom,” Georges Franju’s “Eyes Without a Face,” Carl Theodor Dreyer’s “Vampyr” and Shinya Tsukamoto’s “Tetsuo: The Iron Man,” four films that shaped her own sense of fantasy possibilities. Time and again, Walder underscores Argento’s multi-faceted career, drawing parallels between the star’s work as an actor, director, author, activist and musician and the festival’s similarly multidisciplinary remit.
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