News | NARCISA HIRSCH, THE GERMAN INSPIRATION

Orly Antoine, Rey de la Patagonia tells the story of the singular adventurous Frenchman who founded the Kingdom of the Araucania in 1860, in Argentine and Chilean lands, and proclaimed himself king. Aida reflects women’s inner world from a female perspective. Marabunta y Manzanas portrays director Narcisa Hirsch’s public performances as part of the city’s artistic vanguard of the 1970s. The work of German filmmaker Narcisa Hirsch, who has lived in Argentina since very little, offers powerful imagery that brings us closer to existential questions, making us reflect on the female condition, love and sexual gender and identity issues. This year, BAFICI offers a Focus dedicated to her, which groups her films in four programs, featuring notably her documentaries.

Narcisa Hirsch was born in Berlin in 1928. In the 1960s and 1970s, she expanded her activity into installations, objects, performances, graffiti and urban intervention. She uses a especially intimate language, marked by visual and sound poetry. She has made over 30 films on super 8 and 16 mm, including full-length films, shorts and documentaries which will be screened in this section of the Festival.