BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 CALSCALE:GREGORIAN PRODID:iCalendar-Ruby BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Arts,Film Screening DESCRIPTION:This special film screening event which complements the USC Fis her Museum of Art exhibition\, Narcisa Hirsch: In Relation\, will showcase a carefully curated selection of films spanning over half a century. You'll have the opportunity to delve into the conceptual\, formal\, sensual\, and metaphysical themes that populate Hirsch's frames through early films in s uper 8 and 16mm\, which have been recently digitized at the USC Digital Rep ository. These historic films will be screened alongside her more recent vi deo work “Materia Negra” (Dark Matter) from 2023.\n\nThe one-hour screening will be followed by a 30-minute panel discussion with Erin Graff Zivin (Pr ofessor of Spanish and Portuguese and Comparative Literature\, USC)\, Norae dén Mora Méndez (Postdoctoral Teaching Fellow\, Latin American and Iberian Cultures\, USC)\, Inger Flem Soto (Doctoral Candidate\, Comparative Studies in Literature and Culture\, USC)\, and Franchesca Rotger (PhD student\, Co mparative Studies in Literature and Culture\, USC). Light refreshments will be served after the Q&A.\n\n \n\nFilm Program:\n\nAfter Medina: Narcisa at 95\, Erin Graff Zivin and Tomas Rautenstrauch (2023\, Digital/ super 8\, 1 2 minutes)\n\nMarabunta (1967\, 16mm\, 8 minutes)\n\nAída (1976\, super 8\, 7 minutes)\n\nPatinando en Nueva York (Skating in New York) (1980\, super 8\, 3 minutes)\n\nRafael\, agosto de 1984 (1984\, 12 minutes)\n\nEl Aleph ( 2005\, Digital\, 1 minute)\n\nMateria negra (Dark matter) (2023\, digital\, 12 minutes)\n\nCome Out (1974\, super 8\, 9 minutes)\n\n \n\nAbout the Exh ibition:\n\nA pioneer of Argentinian experimental or “underground” cinema\, Narcisa Hirsch has referred to herself as una famosa cineasta desconocida (a famous unknown filmmaker). Although she can be said to have been triply marginalized—as a Latin American\, as a woman\, and as an experimental arti st who always moved outside of the traditional global and local art circuit s —her low-budget projects allowed her radical freedom to experiment with t he medium of film\, always in dialogue with other artists and art forms ran ging from filmmaker Michael Snow to composer Steve Reich\, fiction writer J orge Luis Borges to musician Nina Simone. Indeed\, before becoming a filmma ker\, Hirsch herself experimented with diverse forms and media—painting\, g raffiti\, and happenings on the streets of Buenos Aires\, New York\, and Lo ndon—and subsequently published several books. This exhibition focuses upon the relational quality of Hirsch’s work\, including relations of translati on\, adaptation\, and experimentation between the medium of film and other artistic media (dance\, literature\, music\, painting\, graffiti\, happenin gs)\, as well as between Hirsch’s work and that of other artists (Michael S now\, Michelangelo Antonioni\, Nina Simone\, Steve Reich\, Philip Glass\, E dgar Varèse\, Caetano Veloso\, Jorge Luis Borges\, Novalis\, Blaise Cendrar s).\n\n \n\nAbout the Curator:\n\nErin Graff Zivin\, Professor of Spanish a nd Portuguese and Comparative Literature\, is the Director of the Experimen tal Humanities Lab and Acting Director of the Society of Fellows in the Hum anities at USC. Her research focuses on modern and contemporary Latin Ameri can literature and other media\, deconstruction\, the relationship between ethics\, politics\, and aesthetics\, and the intersection of philosophy and critical theory more broadly. Prof. Graff Zivin is the author of Anarchaeo logies: Reading as Misreading (Fordham UP\, 2020)\, Figurative Inquisitions : Conversion\, Torture\, and Truth in the Luso-Hispanic Atlantic (Northwest ern UP\, 2014\, winner of the 2015 Award for Best Book\, Latin American Jew ish Studies Association)\, and The Wandering Signifier: Rhetoric of Jewishn ess in the Latin American Imaginary (Duke UP\, 2008). She is co-editor of T error: La perspectiva hispana (Guillermo Escolar\, 2020)\, and editor of Th e Marrano Specter: Derrida and Hispanism (Fordham University Press\, 2017)\ , The Ethics of Latin American Literary Criticism: Reading Otherwise (Palgr ave Macmillan\, 2007). She is also editor of a special issue of Discourse o n the work of Peggy Kamuf (2019)\, and co-editor (with Tracy McNulty) of a special issue of Diacritics on the topic of “Women in Theory” (2022). Graff Zivin currently heads the international “Women in Theory” collective\, ser ves on the Executive Council of the Modern Language Association\, oversees the digitization of the filmic work of Narcisa Hirsch (a collaboration betw een USC Digital Library and the Filmoteca Narcisa Hirsch)\, and is completi ng a book on experimental transmedial aesthetics.\n\n \n\nIndividuals with disabilities who need accommodations to attend this event may contact Maria Galicia at (213)740-5549\, galiciam@usc.edu. It is requested that individu als requiring accommodations or auxiliary aids such as sign language interp reters and alternative format materials notify us at least 10 days prior to the event. Every reasonable effort will be made to provide reasonable acco mmodations in an effective and timely manner. DTEND:20231027T040000Z DTSTAMP:20260309T204725Z DTSTART:20231027T020000Z GEO:34.023338;-118.287199 LOCATION:Ray Stark Family Theatre (SCA)\, SCA 108 SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:Experimental Matter: Narcisa Hirsch’s Films UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_44500512395121 URL:https://calendar.usc.edu/event/experimental_matter_narcisa_hirschs_film s END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR