Songs From Naples (Viennale-Trailer 2022)

For her contribution to the Viennale’s 60th anniversary, Argentine experimentalist Narcisa Hirsch has chosen to dip back into history. Her trailer is a reconfigured excerpt from her 1971 film CANCIONES NAPOLITANES. In this short passage, we see a close-up of a woman’s mouth, accompanied by the music of Neapolitan singer Robert Murolo. First we see the woman smile, but then she starts eating something slimy. Hirsch’s trailer is concerned with surfaces in many ways, and the fugitive pleasures they can afford us. Her work has always focused on bodies and tactility, the haptic moments that privilege affect over concept...