Narcisa Hirsch Movies

Narcisa Hirsch was born on 16 January under the sign of Capricom. These diaries labelled Capricorn 78 show an approach to everyday life with unusual...

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

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...

An excursion to the Gaviota Islands in Lake Nahuel Huapi becomes a psychedelic trip: taking advantage of the very power of the natural landscape and...

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...

The dialogue of a woman with herself split into two unknown opposites.

Hirsch’s first steps in filmmaking were documentations of her performances and happenings in public spaces. These were collective actions,...

An interpretation in images of the texts of Rumi, 13th century Sufi poet. Registering a simultaneous projection RUMI live in two different formats...

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...

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

The transformation of an image. A woman suddenly transfigured breast and cut, like the Amazon, making new weapons: the bow and arrow.

A Super 8 film by Narcisa Hirsch

This film is the testimony of men speaking to their own image. Each man, alone in a dark space, speaks to himself while watching his own projection....

In Aída (1976), a Super 8 camera captures ballerina Aída Laib dancing vigorously in Hirsch’s atelier to the sounds of Nina...

Narcisa Hirsch (Berlin, 1928), a pioneer of experimental cinema in Argentina, produced continuously in various media since the 60s. In the beginning,...

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

The reeds lean over the water. There is no nostalgia. A letter filmed for Rafael Maino in 1984 with stories of the filmmaker as a memoir of a...

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...