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.

Showcasing a collection of recent experimental works by Southeast Asian women filmmakers, Unsettling Landscape focuses on short films and videos that critically engage with questions of land, landscape and the myriad forms of mediation that have been used to capture their image.
Q&A via video with filmmakers and UCLA Associate Professor Jasmine Nadua Trice.

Curated by UCLA Cinema and Media Studies Associate Professor Jasmine Nadua Trice and co-presented by UCLA Center for the Study of Women | Barbra Streisand Center (CSW | Streisand Center)