Narcisa Hirsch

Songs From Naples (2022)

The grande dame of experimental film, still active, still perceptive, still avant-garde, has taken a scene from her collection and sends it into a dialogue with our times. ...

Myst (2019)

"The world is a tarantula ... a big, dark tarantula, moving around weaving its own web." A journey into myths and origins of the world with the grand dame of Argentine avant-garde cinema. See the Earth as it really is: A marble spinning in a sea of eternit ...

Kosmos (2017)

Twins still in their amniotic fluid announce our human condition, our compulsion to walk, move forward, run. When everything moves, we go through the forest of emotions in a dreamlike way. But it is thanks to water and its light reflections, to its transfo ...

la velocidad del tiempo (2012)

"the speed of time dissolves thought" ...

Postal Austria (2012)

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

Rumi (2011)

An interpretation in images of the texts of Rumi, 13th century Sufi poet. Registering a simultaneous projection RUMI live in two different formats (16mm and video) made ​​under the Cycle video art and experimental cinema of Buenos Aires Museum of Moder ...

El Mito de Narciso (2011)

"Life is a latency that as time and space becomes visible as a figure. But never eat at all, there are other possible lives. Making a life is difficult, filming the impossible itself . with this imago-auto-bio-graphy is an attempt to talk about this amb ...

Celebración (2007)

El erotismo del tiempo (2006)

El Aleph (2005)

The Aleph is the point where diachronic and synchronic times meet, and each second represents a moment in life, from birth to death. ...

Los chicos y la calle (2002)

The movie follows a group of children living in the streets in the city of Buenos Aires. The only day center working is the CAINA (Centro de Atención Integral a la Niñez y Adolescencia) an institution that assists and shelters street children. ...

Rumi (1999)

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

Warnes (1991)

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 cloud of ...

A-Dios (1989)

The role of men returning from the war; it is the end of the battles and ideologies. ...

Mujeres (1985)

Women in different situations of life, accompanied occasionally by images of nature. Men appear alone in different roles, like a ski athlete, a musician, and a judge, the latter, in a scene from Dreyer's film The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928). ...

Ana, ¿Dónde Estás? (1985)

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

Rafael agosto 1984 (1984)

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 paradise. A paradise formulated over seven years by the friendship between Rafael and Narcisa: "if there was a fig ...

AMA-ZONA (1983)

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

Aigokeros (1981)

Many stars, only at night, illuminate the vast. Aigokeros is the Greek name for Capricorn, the sign of the zodiac, which is half goat and half fish and which, according to Jung, follows the age of Aquarius and will unite the opposites. ...

The Bengali Night (1980)

" Cinema is what happens between frames," said German experimental filmmaker Werner Nekes. A woman and a man are on the ground together but it looks as though they are floating without moving. Silence overruns the scene; she stops and walks away. La Noche ...

Para Virginia (1979)

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. ...

Pichón en el Obelisco (1979)

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. ...

Mundial (1978)

An unpublished piece by this pioneer of experimental cinema with the participation of Elías Cherñajovsky and Sergio Levin. ...

Homecoming (1978)

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

Mundial 78 (1978)

MUNDIAL 78 is a humorous depiction of the controversial 1978 football World Cup that took place during the Argentinian dictatorship ...

Testamento y vida interior (1977)

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

Pocos son los que conocen el secreto del amor (1976)

"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 places, ob ...

Orpheus and Eurydice (1976)

Orpheus' song tames scales and dolphins, dictates laws to the wind and sets the rhythm of the oars that move the sea. Those who listen to it remain motionless in contemplation. Between bodies, the Patagonian landscape and the crossing of boundaries with t ...

Pioneros (1976)

Documentary about Jewish colonizers in Argentina. ...

Rafael, 1975 (1975)

Workshop (1975)

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. ...

Retrato de Marta Minujín (1974)

"Academia del fracaso" is a speculative aesthetic fact of a polemic nature, as Marta Minujín explains when she talks about her work. Portrayed in this film explaining the functioning of her participatory performance in 1974, the artist extends herself to ...

Portraits (1974)

Short film by Narcisa Hirsch ...

Andrea 1973 (1973)

Paddock (1973)

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. ...

Pink Freud (1972)

Diarios Patagónicos 2 (1972)

DIARIOS PATAGÓNICOS 2 explores Narcisa Hirschs everyday life, travels and friends that reveal their working methods. ...

Patagonia (1972)

Patagonia reflects Hirsch's close connection to Argentina's natural world and the people around her. ...

Edgardo (1971)

Hirsch's first steps in filmmaking were documentations of her performances and happenings in public spaces. These were collective actions, filmed initially on 8mm or 16mm film, which record the reactions of a randomly chosen spectator. ...

Come Out (1971)

About the music of Steve Reich, a phrase be phased out as the image it makes the reverse movement. ...

Descendencia (1971)

"...Part of Descendencia was originally shot in 16mm film by the husband of my grandmother. This was in 1928. It was my family's footage. It was not "found" because it was already there in my family. My grandmother is in it, my mother, me, and my children ...

Neapolitan Songs (1970)

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 Giunt ...

Diarios Patagónicos 1 (1970)

A Super 8 film by Narcisa Hirsch ...

Tambores en la plaza (1970)

Hirsch's first steps in filmmaking were documentations of her performances and happenings in public spaces. These were collective actions, filmed initially on 8mm or 16mm film, which record the reactions of a randomly chosen spectator. ...

Retrato de una artista como ser humano (1969)

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 personal ...

Marabunta (1967)

Marabunta, a ceremony in collective anthropophagy involving a six-meter skeleton completely covered in fruit and food, inside of which were live doves and parrots painted with phosphorescent colors that flew out as people were eating. ...

Apples (1966)

Happening by Narcisa Hirsch, where she gives free apples in the street while we hear passersby's comments. ...

El refugio de Narcisa Heuser (2023)

Herbaria (2022)

In his second feature film, Leandro Listorti establishes a parallel between two worlds he seems to know well: that of plants and that of cinema. This delicate cinematographic work, full of beautiful images—both archival and current—gives an account of ...

time/ OUT OF JOINT (2015)

With research that spans the work of philosophers Gilles Deleuze and Martin Heidegger to modern mythologies in which time reversal plays a crucial role — such as failed time machines, speed of light travel, and occult practices involving speech — Strac ...

Reflejo Narcisa (2014)

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. ...

Narcisa (2014)

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. ...

Butoh (2013)

El Mito de Narciso (2011)

"Life is a latency that as time and space becomes visible as a figure. But never eat at all, there are other possible lives. Making a life is difficult, filming the impossible itself . with this imago-auto-bio-graphy is an attempt to talk about this amb ...

El Aleph (2005)

The Aleph is the point where diachronic and synchronic times meet, and each second represents a moment in life, from birth to death. ...

Tambores en la plaza (1970)

Hirsch's first steps in filmmaking were documentations of her performances and happenings in public spaces. These were collective actions, filmed initially on 8mm or 16mm film, which record the reactions of a randomly chosen spectator. ...

Marabunta (1967)

Marabunta, a ceremony in collective anthropophagy involving a six-meter skeleton completely covered in fruit and food, inside of which were live doves and parrots painted with phosphorescent colors that flew out as people were eating. ...

Yo veo conejos (1967)

Apples (1966)

Happening by Narcisa Hirsch, where she gives free apples in the street while we hear passersby's comments. ...