Movies: A. Hans Scheirl

  • 1989
    The Drift of Juicy

    The Drift of Juicy (1989)

    The Drift of Juicy

    01989HD

    A possible staging of spaces; artificial places, in which the laws—of physical, social or cultural origins—are expanded, changed, ignored, perverted or transformed....

    The Drift of Juicy
  • 2002
    Venus Boyz

    Venus Boyz (2002)

    Venus Boyz

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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....

    Venus Boyz
  • 1998
    Dandy Dust

    Dandy Dust (1998)

    Dandy Dust

    5.91998HD

    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...

    Dandy Dust
  • 1992
    Flaming Ears

    Flaming Ears (1992)

    Flaming Ears

    4.11992HD

    In the year 2700, a comic book artist encounters a mysterious alien while seeking revenge against the pyromaniac who burned down her printing presses....

    Flaming Ears
  • 1985
    Black Heart Leaking – Instruction for Amateur Constructor Female

    Black Heart Leaking – Instruction for Amateur Constructor Female (1985)

    Black Heart Leaking – Instruction for Amateur Constructor Female

    01985HD

    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...

    Black Heart Leaking – Instruction for Amateur Constructor Female
  • 1984
    Super-8 Girl Games

    Super-8 Girl Games (1984)

    Super-8 Girl Games

    01984HD

    A Scratch Movie...

    Super-8 Girl Games
  • 1985
    Zigzagged Rivulet Sneaks Up Shamelessly Wetting Thighs

    Zigzagged Rivulet Sneaks Up Shamelessly Wetting Thighs (1985)

    Zigzagged Rivulet Sneaks Up Shamelessly Wetting Thighs

    01985HD

    Bodies and fluids, bodily fluids and fluid bodies....

    Zigzagged Rivulet Sneaks Up Shamelessly Wetting Thighs
  • 1985
    Tender Buttons

    Tender Buttons (1985)

    Tender Buttons

    01985HD

    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...

    Tender Buttons
  • 1989
    The Abbotess and the Flying Bone

    The Abbotess and the Flying Bone (1989)

    The Abbotess and the Flying Bone

    01989HD

    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....

    The Abbotess and the Flying Bone
  • 1997
    St. Pelagius the Penitent

    St. Pelagius the Penitent (1997)

    St. Pelagius the Penitent

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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....

    St. Pelagius the Penitent
  • 1984
    Easter 84

    Easter 84 (1984)

    Easter 84

    01984HD

    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....

    Easter 84
  • 1986
    Im Original Farbig

    Im Original Farbig (1986)

    Im Original Farbig

    01986HD

    ...

    Im Original Farbig
  • 1985
    A Rubber Dinghy and Oysters

    A Rubber Dinghy and Oysters (1985)

    A Rubber Dinghy and Oysters

    01985HD

    Early 'home movie' work of Scheirl and Pürrer....

    A Rubber Dinghy and Oysters
  • 1984
    Bodybuilding

    Bodybuilding (1984)

    Bodybuilding

    01984HD

    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....

    Bodybuilding
  • 1995
    1.5 Frogs Fuck Fest

    1.5 Frogs Fuck Fest (1995)

    1.5 Frogs Fuck Fest

    01995HD

    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...

    1.5 Frogs Fuck Fest