The Aleph is the point where diachronic and synchronic time meet, and our life can be an experience of “a lifetime or one minute”. The instants come one right after another, but at the same time, each moment simultaneously has the depth of field of the infinite and the eternal. Each second represents an instance of life from birth to death. The Aleph is the point that concentrates these instances.
The universe plays a prominent role in Narcisa Hirsch’s work, especially in her later films, where cinema is grasped as a meeting between the body and the eternal or a dialogue between the intimate and the immense. This programme contains films in which Hirsch explores her relationship to time, like ALEPH and AMA-ZONA, while also incorporating eroticism, violence, mortality, and women’s independence. In other films, she focuses on the film material and its mysteries, such as MYST, KOSMOS II LA INCERTIDUMBRE or her latest film MATERIA OSCURA, which is presented here as an International Premiere. Hirsch herself requested that this focus on her cinema finish with WORKSHOP, which is one of her first films, but in her view already contains everything about her oeuvre. A shot of her workshop that changes with the light is accompanied by the artist’s reflections, which sum up her life in 11 minutes. It is an experimental structuralist film that is nonetheless profoundly moving. (Cecilia Barrionuevo) (Viennale)
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