by Ana Júlia Silvino, Renan Eduardo e Rubens Fabricio Anzolin
The seminar The Gestures of Narcisa Hirsch — which also gives its name to the special showcase of the 27th FestCurtasBH — presents the short films Come Out (1971) and Testamento y Vida Interior (1976), both directed by Narcisa Hirsch. The screening is followed by a roundtable discussion with Fernanda Pessoa and Carla Italiano, moderated by the curators of the section: Ana Júlia Silvino, Renan Eduardo, and Rubens Fabricio Anzolin. The conversation aims to look at Hirsch’s work through some of its recurring elements — such as the diary film, citation, the documentation of artists’ actions, and a striking interest in the body and its fragments — as well as through an invocation of the feminine imaginary and the sonic listening procedures in cinema. In other words, it proposes to analyze her gestures, her thematic and formal repetitions. Considering the profusion of images she created throughout her life, it seems more valuable to highlight what is shared — and what is unique — in the stylistic attitudes of her work: driven by harsh editing, by an energetic surrender to sonic rhythms, and by the quantitative and dialectical relationship she establishes with what she films. Our interest lies in seeing Hirsch’s films through her questions, her minute details, and her processes — in order to propose, above all, possibilities: of world and of reading, through a cinema that neither behaves nor confines itself, but that has remained, throughout its duration, profoundly attentive to the surrounding world.
Venue: Cine Humberto Mauro
Time: 21h00