Narcisa Hirsch

Biography

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.

Directed

1. El Aleph (2005) — Director
2. Homecoming (1978) — Director
3. AMA-ZONA (1983) — Director
4. Rumi (1999) — Director
5. Mundial 78 (1978) — Director
6. Come Out (1971) — Director
7. Diarios Patagónicos 1 (1970) — Director
8. Workshop (1975) — Director
9. Testamento y vida interior (1977) — Director
10. A-Dios (1989) — Director
11. El Mito de Narciso (2011) — Director
12. Marabunta (1967) — Director
13. Neapolitan Songs (1970) — Director
14. Ana, ¿Dónde Estás? (1985) — Director
15. Descendencia (1971) — Director
16. la velocidad del tiempo (2012) — Director
17. Orpheus and Eurydice (1976) — Director
18. Rafael agosto 1984 (1984) — Director
19. Aigokeros (1981) — Director
20. Pocos son los que conocen el secreto del amor (1976) — Director
21. Warnes (1991) — Director
22. Retrato de Marta Minujín (1974) — Director
23. Diarios Patagónicos 2 (1972) — Director
24. Tambores en la plaza (1970) — Director
25. Pichón en el Obelisco (1979) — Director
26. Edgardo (1971) — Director
27. Postal Austria (2012) — Director
28. Patagonia (1972) — Director
29. Mujeres (1985) — Director
30. The Bengali Night (1980) — Director
31. Para Virginia (1979) — Director
32. Rumi (2011) — Director
33. Andrea 1973 (1973) — Director
34. Rafael, 1975 (1975) — Director
35. Paddock (1973) — Director
36. Pioneros (1976) — Director
37. El erotismo del tiempo (2006) — Director
38. Celebración (2007) — Director
39. Mundial (1978) — Director
40. Portraits (1974) — Director

Also appeared in

1. El Aleph (2005) — Narrator (voice)
2. Narcisa (2014)
3. El Mito de Narciso (2011)
4. Herbaria (2022) — Self
5. Butoh (2013)
6. Marabunta (1967)
7. El refugio de Narcisa Heuser (2023) — Narcisa Hirsch
8. time/ OUT OF JOINT (2015) — Herself
9. Yo veo conejos (1967)
10. Reflejo Narcisa (2014) — Main
11. Apples (1966)
12. Tambores en la plaza (1970)
13. Muñecos (Have a baby) (1972)
14. Pradera
15. Instead of Trees (2026) — Self