Movies: A. Hans Scheirl
- 1989
The Drift of Juicy (1989)
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A possible staging of spaces; artificial places, in which the laws—of physical, social or cultural origins—are expanded, changed, ignored, perverted or transformed....
- 2002
Venus Boyz (2002)
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This intimate look into the real world of drag kings -- women exploring their masculinity -- crosses continents, traveling through drag king nightclubs from New York to London....
- 1998
Dandy Dust (1998)
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Dust, a split-personality cyborg of fluid gender, zooms through time and space in search of his/her own memories and a sense of understanding. S/he travels from the Planet of White Dust where war is constant, to the Planet of Blood and Swelling, a hy...
- 1992
Flaming Ears (1992)
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In the year 2700, a comic book artist encounters a mysterious alien while seeking revenge against the pyromaniac who burned down her printing presses....
- 1985
Black Heart Leaking – Instruction for Amateur Constructor Female (1985)
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The plant is padded and bounces, the heart is padded and drops. Objects fill the lead roles: swaying plants with succulent leaves; and vases, tall and lean like the torsos of young women. Metal and plastic foil, leather straps and piles of flour, eni...
- 1984
Super-8 Girl Games (1984)
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A Scratch Movie...
- 1985
Zigzagged Rivulet Sneaks Up Shamelessly Wetting Thighs (1985)
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Bodies and fluids, bodily fluids and fluid bodies....
- 1985
Tender Buttons (1985)
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A filmic homage to Gertrude Stein's "Tender Buttons": Everyday objects and especially house plants are imbued with cubist dimensions – everything moves, everything is alive. Lesbian fellowship swims like fish in the water to a shore of ruins – this c...
- 1989
The Abbotess and the Flying Bone (1989)
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In a black-and-white comic format three characters are tossed from life into death and back again into life. They flourish in the chaos of androgyny; they cultivate their perversity as if it were wealth....
- 1997
St. Pelagius the Penitent (1997)
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Whimsical and thought-provoking, this is the story of five friends, each on a unique gender adventure, and one of their long-lost ancestors, a medieval saint....
- 1984
Easter 84 (1984)
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Pürrer and Scheirl as naughty Easter bunnies create their own visual rhyme on Easter: Catholic excess and Christ kitsch become drowned out by undulating sounds and shimmering foil. Jesus pin-up and corpse of Christ reenactment included....
- 1986
Im Original Farbig (1986)
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- 1985
A Rubber Dinghy and Oysters (1985)
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Early 'home movie' work of Scheirl and Pürrer....
- 1984
Bodybuilding (1984)
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Games with muscles, games with power, SM games. The naked body employed as a prop. Perceptions of one's own body are the focus of Body-building, and it leaves the good-girl role far behind, sometimes in striking poses, sometimes in martial dress....
- 1995
1.5 Frogs Fuck Fest (1995)
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These shorts, executed between 1984 and 1986 in Vienna, exude an amazingly fresh intimacy and vitality. Referred to by the filmmakers as "home movies", they record actionistic performances in the directors' own living quarters, with added soundtracks...