Narcisa Hirsch Movies

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 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...

Portrait of Narchisa Hirsch's family.

"...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...

"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...

Women in different situations of life, accompanied occasionally by images of nature. Men appear alone in different roles, like a ski athlete, a...

"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...

Marabunta, a ceremony in collective anthropophagy involving a six-meter skeleton completely covered in fruit and food, inside of which were live...

"the speed of time dissolves thought"

With research that spans the work of philosophers Gilles Deleuze and Martin Heidegger to modern mythologies in which time reversal plays a crucial...

The Super 8mm film “Muñecos” (1972) — shot by the artist, Leopoldo Maler and Carolee Schneemann — combines recordings...

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

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...

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

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...

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

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...

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...

An unpublished piece by this pioneer of experimental cinema with the participation of Elías Cherñajovsky and Sergio Levin.