Movies: Narcisa Hirsch

A young couple, locked in a room quietly relates, as she recalls her life from birth until the arrival of first love....

Portrait of women where they look at the images of their own faces and reflect on that experience....

on the image of a collage on the wall, the voice of a woman describes a man the interior space of a workshop that is not seen....

A mixture of abstract images and, as if out of a Man Ray painting, a large mouth in the foreground with red lipstick slowly devours a raw liver and then goes on to eat a postcard. Meanwhile, romantic Neapolitan songs play in the background. As Andrea...

A portrait of Narcisa Hirsch, Argentine filmmaker, pioneer of experimental cinema. The artist explores the path of her memories, where the traces of some men appear, which are transposed with the constant reference to the desert....

This documentary is an approach to the experience of seeing and listening to the trajectory of Narcisa Hirsch, a pioneer of Argentine experimental cinema, but who has also been part of the happenings and performances of the 1960s and 1970s....

Experimental documentary by the artist, showing various happenings carried out over the years with Marie Louise Alemann and Walther Mejía. As a ritual, the various elements involved in these events are thrown into a river. A film in the form of a per...

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"The secret of love well few know; they feel an eternal thirst and feel an unquenchable hunger" writes Novalis in his poem. In turn, Narcisa converses with Rafael Maino, protagonist of many films in the diary series, opening the way to images of plac...

A video letter that Hirsch made for Hans Hurch after attending the 2012 Viennale...

The life story of an artist. The fantasy of a poetic burial accompanied by friends of cinema....

Over the course of one year, Narcisa Hirsch left a super 8 camera on a tripod in a paddock near her house in the Patagonia. When she was away, she gave instructions to activate the camera to a local farmer who looked after cows in the area....

During the 1980s, Hirsch made a series of documentary films about various events in the city, like the appropriation of a monument in PICHÓN EN LE OBILISCO....

But in Rafael in Rio (1977), the stability between the voice and the images drifts, as well as their relationship. What we see is Maino diving into the ocean until he becomes just a point on the horizon, and we (and she) can no longer reach him....

In Aída (1976), a Super 8 camera captures ballerina Aída Laib dancing vigorously in Hirsch’s atelier to the sounds of Nina Simone. The dancing movements intersperse with a visual exploration of the artist’s naked body, where Hirsch’s sensual gaze gra...

Portrait of Narchisa Hirsch's family....

Images from the texts of Rumi, 13th century Sufi poet....

A tribute to Virginia, a 23-year-old girl who apparently committed suicide in Ibiza. Excerpts from her letters to Narcisa, written on the walls, appear in the film as a leitmotif....

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Half a ton of explosives demolishes in front of thirty thousand people the building complex that served as a shelter in the Buenos Aires neighborhood of La Paternal. On March 16, 1991 Narcisa Hirsch records it in a unique way: that giant becomes a cl...