Narcisa Hirsch

Narcisa Hirsch

Nascimento : , Berlin, Germany

História

Narcisa Hirsch (née Heuser, born 1928) is an Argentine experimental filmmaker of German birth. Her work centered on themes of the body, love, sex, death, movement, and the female gaze. Despite this focus on women, she has resisted being labeled as a feminist. She began as a painter, and but her later and better known work centers on performance and film, though she has also written several books. She cites Salvador Dalí and Luis Buñuel as influences to her experimental film work, as well as the Bauhaus artists of Germany. During her time as an experimental filmmaker in Argentina, she frequented the Di Tella Institute and the Goethe Institute, a place where many of her works premiered. Recenlty, her work has been honored through several retrospectives at international film festivals, though it was relatively unknown outside of exclusive circles when it first premiered. Description above from the Wikipedia article Narcisa Hirsch, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Perfil

Narcisa Hirsch

Filmes

Herbaria
Self
In his second feature film, Leandro Listorti establishes a parallel between two worlds he seems to know well: that of plants and that of cinema. This delicate cinematographic work, full of beautiful images—both archival and current—gives an account of the immense work of classification and preservation, and generously invites us to think about forms of representation and memory.
Songs From Naples
Director
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 dialogue with our times.
Myst
Director
"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 dame of Argentine avant-garde cinema. See the Earth as it really is: A marble spinning in a sea of eternity.
Kosmos
Writer
Twins still in their amniotic fluid announce our human condition, our compulsion to walk, move forward, run. When everything moves, we go through the forest of emotions in a dreamlike way. But it is thanks to water and its light reflections, to its transforming power that the infinite “Kosmos” plays with our uncertainty.
Kosmos
Director
Twins still in their amniotic fluid announce our human condition, our compulsion to walk, move forward, run. When everything moves, we go through the forest of emotions in a dreamlike way. But it is thanks to water and its light reflections, to its transforming power that the infinite “Kosmos” plays with our uncertainty.
time/ OUT OF JOINT
Herself
With research that spans the work of philosophers Gilles Deleuze and Martin Heidegger to modern mythologies in which time reversal plays a crucial role — such as failed time machines, speed of light travel, and occult practices involving speech — Stracke combines science and philosophy in an attempt to defy death through cinema and the notion of time reversal.
Reflejo Narcisa
Main
Narcisa
This documentary is an approach to the experience of seeing and listening to the trajectory of Narcisa Hirsch, a pioneer of Argentine experimental cinema, but who has also been part of the happenings and performances of the 1960s and 1970s.
Butoh
la velocidad del tiempo
Director
"the speed of time dissolves thought"
El Mito de Narciso
"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 difficult, filming the impossible itself . with this imago-auto-bio-graphy is an attempt to talk about this ambiguity, where what could be is the possibility of a memory, where what was and what was not, can be remembered in the same way, . always I lived with mixing the imagined thing is chosen in this chancy; go left on the road the other films that might have emerged" -Narcisa Hirsch
El Mito de Narciso
Director
"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 difficult, filming the impossible itself . with this imago-auto-bio-graphy is an attempt to talk about this ambiguity, where what could be is the possibility of a memory, where what was and what was not, can be remembered in the same way, . always I lived with mixing the imagined thing is chosen in this chancy; go left on the road the other films that might have emerged" -Narcisa Hirsch
Rumi
Director
An interpretation in images of the texts of Rumi, 13th century Sufi poet. Registering a simultaneous projection RUMI live in two different formats (16mm and video) made ​​under the Cycle video art and experimental cinema of Buenos Aires Museum of Modern Art, French Alliance of Buenos Aires August 2011.
Celebración
Director
Un film en clave reductiva. La imagen es siempre una: un close up de unos labios pintados de rojo que gesticulan, sonríen, y devoran hígado crudo, tal como lo hace Narcisa en Retrato. La boca es la de Agustina Muñiz Paz, hija de una amiga suya desaparecida por la dictadura.
El erotismo del tiempo
Director
La flexibilidad económica y estética del video le ofreció a Narcisa Hirsch la posibilidad, antes que nada, de repensar su obra cinematográfica. De volver a poner en juego sus imágenes fílmicas, de actualizarlas a través de una mirada experimentada, madura, pero para nada “menos joven”.
El Aleph
Director
"The Aleph is the point where diachronic and synchronic time meet, [...] Each second represents an instance of life from birth to death. The Aleph is the point that concentrates these instances."- Narcisa Hirsch
Los chicos y la calle
Producer
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 Atención Integral a la Niñez y Adolescencia) an institution that assists and shelters street children.
Los chicos y la calle
Writer
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 Atención Integral a la Niñez y Adolescencia) an institution that assists and shelters street children.
Rumi
Director
Images from the texts of Rumi, 13th century Sufi poet.
A-Dios
Director
The role of men returning from the war; it is the end of the battles and ideologies.
Mujeres
Director
Women in different situations of life, accompanied occasionally by images of nature. Men appear alone in different roles, like a ski athlete, a musician, and a judge, the latter, in a scene from Dreyer's film The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928).
Ana, ¿Dónde Estás?
Producer
The dialogue of a woman with herself split into two unknown opposites.
Ana, ¿Dónde Estás?
Writer
The dialogue of a woman with herself split into two unknown opposites.
Ana, ¿Dónde Estás?
Director
The dialogue of a woman with herself split into two unknown opposites.
AMA-ZONA
Director
The transformation of an image. A woman suddenly transfigured breast and cut, like the Amazon, making new weapons: the bow and arrow.
The Bengali Night
Director
“ Cinema is what happens between frames," said German experimental filmmaker Werner Nekes. A woman and a man are on the ground together but it looks as though they are floating without moving. Silence overruns the scene; she stops and walks away. La Noche Bengalí is a documentary made as part of the seminar that Wernes Nekes held in Buenos Aires in 1980, sponsored by the Goethe Institute.
Seguro que Bach cerraba su puerta cuando quería trabajar
Director
Portrait of women where they look at the images of their own faces and reflect on that experience.
Para Virginia
Director
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, appear in the film as a leitmotif.
Mundial
Director
An unpublished piece by this pioneer of experimental cinema with the participation of Elías Cherñajovsky and Sergio Levin.
Homecoming
Director
A young couple, locked in a room quietly relates, as she recalls her life from birth until the arrival of first love.
Testamento y vida interior
Director
The life story of an artist. The fantasy of a poetic burial accompanied by friends of cinema.
Taller
Director
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.
Portraits
Director
Short film by Narcisa Hirsch
Retrato de un artista como ser humano
Director
Experimental documentary by the artist that shows various happenings made over the years with Marie Louise Alemann and Walther Mejía. As in a ritual, the different elements that have intervened in these events are thrown into the river. Film in the form of a personal diary that documents the artistic events carried out throughout an era.
Manzanas
Director
Short film by Narcisa Hirsch
Diarios Patagónicos 1
Director
A Super 8 film by Narcisa Hirsch
Pink Freud
Director
Descendencia
Director
"...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 was not “found” because it was already there in my family. My grandmother is in it, my mother, me, and my children are in the film, and I believe that one of my grandchildren is in it, also." -NH
Come out
Director
About the music of Steve Reich, a phrase be phased out as the image it makes the reverse movement.
Neapolitan Songs
Director
Mientras se escuchan canciones napolitanas románticas una mezcla de imágenes abstractas con una gran boca en primer plano se come un hígado crudo y luego una tarjeta postal.
Retrato de una artista como ser humano
Director
Experimental documentary by the artist, showing various happenings carried out over the years with Marie Louise Alemann and Walther Mejía. As a ritual, the various elements involved in these events are thrown into a river. A film in the form of a personal diary that documents artistic events that took place over a period of time.
Marabunta
Director
Marabunta é um registro audiovisual do happening de mesmo nome protagonizado por Hirsch, Marie Louise Alemann e Walther Mejía. O happening foi uma cerimônia antropofágica coletiva em torno de um esqueleto de seis metros de comprimento, coberto de comidas e recheado de pombas vivas, que eram libertadas conforme as pessoas se alimentavam.
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