A. Hans Scheirl Movies

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...

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

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...

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;...

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...

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

Bodies and fluids, bodily fluids and fluid bodies.

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...

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...

Early 'home movie' work of Scheirl and Pürrer.

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