Narcisa Hirsch Movies

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.

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

"...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...

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

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...

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

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

Documentary about Jewish colonizers in Argentina.

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...

A film about lights and shadows.

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

Short film by Narcisa Hirsch

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 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...

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...

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

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

a film by Narcisa Hirsch