[wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narcisa_Hirsch)  (16 February 1928 – 4 May 2024) ## Description An Argentine experimental filmmaker of German birth. Her work centered on themes of the body, love, sex, death, movement and the gaze. ## Key Tags #film-poem #diary-film #latin-american #feminist ## Essential Works - *La Marabunta* (1967) - street happening staged with her group: a giant female skeleton covered in fruit and stuffed with live pigeons, filmed by Raymundo Gleyzer as passersby stripped it bare; staged at the El Coliseo Theater ## Details %% none yet %% ### Concepts and Theories - [[The Body]] - happenings and films staging the body as site of consumption, sex, and death - [[Performance Art]] - street happenings (*La Marabunta* and others) preceding her move into filmmaking ### Creative and Technical Practices %% none yet %% ### Collaborators - [[Werner Nekes]] - Marie Louise Alemann - Claudio Caldini - Horacio Vallereggio - Juan Villola - Juan José Mugni ### Institutional Affiliations and Associated Movements - Grupo Goethe - Buenos Aires experimental-film group associated with the Goethe-Institut ## References ### Primary Sources Bibliography %% none yet %% ### Secondary Sources Bibliography %% none yet %%