Narcisa Hirsch

Personal Info

Know For

Directing

Gender

Female

Birthday

1928-01-16 (96 years old)

Deathday

2024-05-04

Place of Birth

Berlin, Germany

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,...

Acting

2022

Herbaria

as Self

2023

2015

2013

2014

2005

El Aleph

as Narrator (voice)

Production

1971

Descendencia

as Director

1976

1984

1981

Aigokeros

as Director

1991

Warnes

as Director

1972

1978

Mundial 78

as Director

1970

1979

1967

Edgardo

as Director

2012

Postal Austria

as Director

1972

Patagonia

as Director

1985

Mujeres

as Director

1980

1979

Para Virginia

as Director

1971

Come Out

as Director

1970

1975

Workshop

as Director

1978

Homecoming

as Director

1983

AMA-ZONA

as Director

1989

A-Dios

as Director

1999

Rumi

as Director

2005

El Aleph

as Director

2011

Rumi

as Director

2011

2017

Kosmos

as Writer

1973

Andrea 1973

as Director

1975

Rafael, 1975

as Director

1973

Paddock

as Director

1976

Pioneros

as Director

2006

1967

Marabunta

as Director

2007

Celebración

as Director

1970

Neapolitan Songs

as Director

1978

Mundial

as Director

1974

Portraits

as Director

1973

Apples

as Director

1972

Pink Freud

as Director

2017

Kosmos

as Director

2019

Myst

as Director

2002

1985

1985

1972

Muñecos (Have a baby)

as Cinematography

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Chicos 1969

as Director

1976

Aída

as Director

2005

El Aleph

as Idea

1977

Rafael in Rio

as Director

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