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Screenings: 13 November 2026 Friday 20:00 / 12 December 2026 Saturday 18:30 / 2 January 2027 Saturday 14:00
Beginning her artistic practice as a painter before becoming known for performance and film, Narcisa Hirsch is a pioneering figure in Argentine experimental cinema. Sharing affinities with Maya Deren, another experimental filmmaker featured in this season’s program, Hirsch explores love, the body, women’s experience, death, mourning and memory, reaching into the spaces where the personal intersects with the social. Through images shot on Super 8 and 16 mm that evoke the everyday and the intimate, she creates a distinctive sensory language. Her portraits of intimacy, assembled from her personal archive, feel like audiovisual poems. As part of the main program, we present five shorts from her rich filmography, all screening in Türkiye for the first time.
* Total running time: 87 minutes.
* We thank Lumiton and the Argentine Consulate for their collaboration, and our main program sponsor, Kurukahveci Mehmet Efendi, for its support.
Director: Narcisa Hirsch
Cast: Marie Louise Alemann, Katja Alemann, Irene Joselevich, Silvia Cruz, Elena Torres, Diana Hirsch Schijman, Leila Yael, Narcisa Hirsch
Argentina / 1979 / 27 min. / Color / DCP / Spanish / Turkish subtitles
Offering a fragmented account of women’s experience of looking at themselves, Narcisa Hirsch places both herself and a group of women friends before the camera in close-up. These images, initially recorded without sound, are shown to the women some time later. On the accompanying soundtrack, we hear their feelings and thoughts as they confront their own images.
Director: Narcisa Hirsch
Cast: Narcisa Hirsch, Horacio Maira, Marie Louise Alemann
Argentina / 1972 / 11 min. / Color / DCP / No dialogue
Patagonian Diaries 2 is a personal account of Hirsch’s journey from Bariloche to the Atlantic coast with her friends Horacio Maira and Marie Louise Alemann. Distinguished by its editing and situated between documentary and the avant-garde, the film moves between Patagonian landscapes and bodies, conveying the director’s observations of the region.
Director: Narcisa Hirsch
Cast: Rafael Maino
Argentina / 1976 / 12 min. / Color / DCP / No dialogue
Also known as Rafael, 1976, Orpheus and Eurydice belongs to the same series as Rafael, August 1984 and Rafael 1975, focusing on Hirsch’s relationship with the painter Rafael Maino, her great love. Edited from footage of Hirsch and Maino’s travels in Patagonia, the film filters Christoph Willibald Gluck’s opera based on the myth of Orpheus and Eurydice through Hirsch’s personal perspective, making it an accompaniment to the early warmth of love and intimacy.
Director: Narcisa Hirsch
Cast: Rafael Maino
Argentina / 1984 / 12 min. / Color / DCP / Spanish / Turkish subtitles
“I was very happy with you, and now the reeds bow down over the water. There is no nostalgia.” Rafael, August 1984 is Narcisa Hirsch’s audiovisual love letter to the painter Rafael Maino on his birthday. Bringing together Super 8 footage shot on their travels in Patagonia, she mourns a shared memory and a love that has ended, offering a poignant, sensory look at the years spent together by two people who have now drifted apart.
Director: Narcisa Hirsch
Argentina / 1989 / 26 min. / Color / DCP / No dialogue
In Goodbye / To God, dedicated in its opening words to Carl Jung and “the men who enabled her to live”, Narcisa Hirsch considers the defeated man returning from war and the collapse of the heroic myth. Exploring masculinity through different archetypes and iconographies, she portrays this fall with compassion, combining archival footage with her own images.
* The film contains a shot depicting violence against animals.