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...

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...

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;...

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 –...

A Scratch Movie

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...

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

Early 'home movie' work of Scheirl and Pürrer.

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...

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