November 18, 2024
From the moment I met Argentine film artist NARCISA HIRSCH, I knew that I wanted to spend as much time as I could with this woman who was so candid about everything surrounding film form and feminism, in equal measure. Narcisa challenged the way that film as an art has been hijacked by the entertainment industry. She thought about how the camera rearranges reality and the way it allows us to better understand how we think and move. She made it clear that she had her own perspective and it was clearly female.
This Friday, Nov. 22 I will be at @microscope_gallery talking about my long friendship with Hirsch.
I will share excerpts from the 2008 interview I did with her.
We will also be screening “I am Sure Bach Locked his Door When He Wanted to Work” from the @filmoteca_narcisa_hirsch which investigates the way that women, specifically Narcisa’s friends, look at themselves, perform themselves and speak about themselves. 1979 was a remarkable year for women film artists who were experimenting in startlingly radical ways with the documentary form. Chick Strand completed “Soft Fiction” her ground-breaking visual meditation on women and sensuality, and Narcisa Hirsch produced this astonishing, intimate portrait of a group of Argentine women. Only a filmmaker with such radical ideas about the machinery she holds in her hands could have made this movie. It’s the head-shot extraordinaire turned upside-down and inside out. As a finale, you will see the rarely screened dual projection “Rumi”.
This gathering is part of the stunning Narcisa Hirsch exhibition On the Barricades at Micrcoscope. Here is what @screenslate critic Steve McFarlane wrote:
“Featuring work in equally intimate, lyrical, political, and structural registers, “On the Barricades” testifies to Hirsch’s fearlessness.”
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Narcisa Hirsch
“On the Barricades”
October 24-November 30, 2024