Movies

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...

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...

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 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...

A film about lights and shadows.

"...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...

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....

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

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

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

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

A Super 8 film by Narcisa Hirsch

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

"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...

Experimental documentary by the artist, showing various happenings carried out over the years with Marie Louise Alemann and Walther Mejía. As...

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

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