Don’t Bother to Knock

Actress and director Asia Argento created this mesmerising series of film shorts exclusively for SHOWstudio over the course of October 2006. The vignettes, drawing on an ad-hoc ‘video diary’ aesthetic but in fact painstakingly directed, intertwine reality with fantasy thanks to a script devised by Emma Forrest that confuses fiction with reality.

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Aired between October 16th & 25th, 2006, independently digitally remastered January 17th, 2026
133 minutes, color, sound, format unknown
Finished in 720×540 resolution at 25 fps
1.33:1 & 1.80:1
Directed by Night Knight & Asia Argento