Movies: Narcisa Hirsch

"...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 chi...

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...

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

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

"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...

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...

Short film by Narcisa Hirsch...

"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...

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....

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

"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...

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....

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

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

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. (Text by Narci...

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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...

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