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A. Hans Scheirl
Born January 1, 1956 · Salzburg, Austria (age 70)
Hans Scheirl (born 1956) is a trans artist and filmmaker from Salzburg, Austria. Scheirl's films use "the cinematic apparatus as a technology for perverting representation". He outlines his work as "cyber-cinema for the trans-X patriarchal fin-de-millenium."
Known For
Dandy Dust · 1998Dandy Dust
★ 5.41998
MovieScience FictionAnimation
Dust, a split-personality cyborg of fluid gender, zooms through time and space in search of their own memories and a sense of understanding. They travel from the Planet of White Dust where war is constant, to the Planet of Blood and Swelling, a hybrid of their father’s body.
Bodybuilding · 1984Bodybuilding
1984
MovieDocumentary
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.
Flaming Ears · 1992Flaming Ears
★ 4.51992
MovieScience FictionFantasy
In the year 2700, a comic book artist encounters a mysterious alien while seeking revenge against the pyromaniac who burned down her printing presses.
Venus Boyz · 2002Venus Boyz
★ 6.02002
MovieDocumentary
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.
St. Pelagius the Penitent · 1997St. Pelagius the Penitent
★ 7.01997
MovieDocumentary
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.
Slocking Walkman · 1986Slocking Walkman
1986
Movie
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 of intermittent percussive sounds.
The Drift of Juicy · 1989The Drift of Juicy
1989
MovieScience Fiction
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 Abbotess and the Flying Bone · 1989The Abbotess and the Flying Bone
★ 10.01989
Movie
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.
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