It’s almost criminal that Narcisa Hirsch isn’t a household name by now, at least in the homes of those passionate about the histories of performance art and cinema. Then again, the 95-year-old Hirsch, who was born in Berlin in 1928 and emigrated to Argentina in 1937, has playfully called herself una famosa cineasta desconocida (a famous unknown filmmaker), acknowledging her own marginalization but also the freedom that comes with some degree of anonymity.
Stefano Miraglia's short film I'll See You Again is available on Vimeo, for free, until February 10th at the following link: https://vimeo.com/stefanomiraglia/again
Made in 2022, I'll See You Again is Stefano Miraglia's fifteenth film. It premiered in China at UCCA Edge (Shanghai) and at the Goethe Institut in Beijing as part of the Beijing International Short Film Festival. A work in progess version screened at Fabrica research centre in Italy in March 2022.
In January Cineteca starts a monthly program titled Confessional. A map of experimental voices, a project imagined and presented by avant-garde filmmaker Pablo Marín, with the aim of offering a historical atlas of avant-garde cinema. Throughout the next installments, Marín will accompany us on a journey through the life, thought, style and films of some fundamental filmmakers of the genre, such as Sandra Davis, Teo Hernández, Narcisa Hirsch, Gustav Deutsch or Amy Halpern, in sessions projected in 16mm and Super 8mm analog format.
On the occasion of the seminar on film archives, filmmaker, curator, and film preservationist Mark Toscano proposes a program of experimental films restored at the Academy Film Archive with the city of Los Angeles as the protagonist.