Media City Film Festival 2023 Catalogue

COME OUT: FILMS OF NARCISA HIRSCH Wednesday, November 8, 2023 7:45 pm The Capitol Theatre, 121 University Ave. West, Windsor Pay What You Like admission Introduced by Tomas Rautenstrauch, grandson of the artist and Director of the Filmoteca Narcisa Hirsch, who attends from Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Come Out: Films of Narcisa Hirsch is curated and organized to coincide with the first phase of a major restoration project spearheaded by the newly founded Filmoteca Narcisa Hirsch in Buenos Aires and the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, with the aim to preserve the moving image legacy of one of the foremost living figures in the history of South American and international avant-garde cinema.

Currently based in Patagonia, and now in her 96th year, Narcisa Hirsch is a pivotal figure in 20th century art and a legend in her home country of Argentina and beyond. Across the last seven decades—a period marked by two military dictatorships—she has been immersed in a collaborative, multi-disciplinary milieu of filmmaking, happenings, performances, installation, and urban interventions that helped make Buenos Aires one of the most advanced and vibrant centres of the post-war avant-garde.