A. Hans Scheirl Movies

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

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

This intimate look into the real world of drag kings -- women exploring their masculinity -- crosses continents, traveling through drag king...

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...

These shorts, executed between 1984 and 1986 in Vienna, exude an amazingly fresh intimacy and vitality. Referred to by the filmmakers as "home...

Bodies and fluids, bodily fluids and fluid bodies.

A filmic homage to Gertrude Stein's "Tender Buttons": Everyday objects and especially house plants are imbued with cubist dimensions –...

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...

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...

A Scratch Movie

Pürrer and Scheirl as naughty Easter bunnies create their own visual rhyme on Easter: Catholic excess and Christ kitsch become drowned out by...

Lunatics in the subway Take a break at the diner Goggles seen from near Astrid is very seductive and reprimands the child Favorite family-shots...

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...

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;...

In Rhubarb and Sugar, Pürrer plays with rhubarb stalks, which in her hands and mouth are transformed into antennae, ears, and a tail. Monstera...

Between the “red cuts” are dynamic images of Pürrer and Scheirl, some filmed from a screen, often against a red background or...

In front of the mirrored glass facades of the empty, newly built University of Economics and Business, Scheirl, Pürrer, Bauer, and Jurtschitsch...

The film is a garden full of flowers and plant leaves. They’re placed in the mouth and down inside the dress neckline; they’re danced...

Scheirl’s body, with brightly painted genitals and harshly lit face, is portrayed in fragments by the camera; Pürrer is also naked....