Narcisa Hirsch Movies

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

Documentary about Jewish colonizers in Argentina.

"Academia del fracaso" is a speculative aesthetic fact of a polemic nature, as Marta Minujín explains when she talks about her work. Portrayed...

"the speed of time dissolves thought"

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...

An excursion to the Gaviota Islands in Lake Nahuel Huapi becomes a psychedelic trip: taking advantage of the very power of the natural landscape and...

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

The hands of Narcisa Hirsch, a nonagenarian, open another Super 8 film cartridge to load a camera. In what seems like a ritual of passing on a...

Portrait of Narchisa Hirsch's family.

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,...

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

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

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

The camera takes in the Patagonian pastures, then the faces in an old warehouse, and transparent photos of Patagonian scenes. Everything is filtered...

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

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...

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

This film is the testimony of men speaking to their own image. Each man, alone in a dark space, speaks to himself while watching his own projection....