Movies: Narcisa Hirsch

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....

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

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

"The Aleph is the point where diachronic and synchronic time meet, [...] Each second represents an instance of life from birth to death. The Aleph is the point that concentrates these instances."- Narcisa Hirsch...

"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 hersel...

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....

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 o...

"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...

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

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

"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 th...

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....

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 t...

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 — Str...

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....

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

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

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....