Narcisa Hirsch Movies

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

on the image of a collage on the wall, the voice of a woman describes a man the interior space of a workshop that is not seen.

"...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...

"the speed of time dissolves thought"

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

Short film by Narcisa Hirsch

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...

"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...

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

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

Documentary about Jewish immigration in Argentina.

Twins still in their amniotic fluid announce our human condition, our compulsion to walk, move forward, run. When everything moves, we go through the...

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

Patagonia reflects Hirsch's close connection to Argentina’s natural world and the people around her.

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

A mixture of abstract images and, as if out of a Man Ray painting, a large mouth in the foreground with red lipstick slowly devours a raw liver and...

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,...