Ashley Hans Scheirl

Hans Scheirl, also known as Angela Scheirl, Hans Angela Scheirl or Ashley Hans Sheirl, (born 1956) is a transgender artist and filmmaker from Salzburg, Austria.

Scheirl first began his transition at the age of 40 with testosterone shots. He currently identifies as "boy, drag-king, transvestite, transgender...[and] insect."[1] He has also performed in some experimental groups including the music group "8 oder 9" in Vienna in 1978.[2] 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."[1]

Education

In 1975 he attended the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna, Austria and received a diploma in Conservation and Technology of Art in 1980. In 2003 Scheirl received a master's degree in Art Studies at Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design in London, England.[2]

Career

Film

In 1979 Scheirl directed 52 super-8 films and two short films in 1986. He also directed two short 16mm films in 1988. In 1991 he co-directed, co-edited, and performed in Flaming Ears (1991), and directed Dandy Dust (1998).[2] Scheirl is known to use film as a medium to experiment with gender and identity, often through montage, and relates some of his film to the "cyborg" identity.[1][3] He has also stated that his intention with film is to create a new medium of communication through film.[4] Scheirl had taken part in numerous films including Venus Boyz (2002) by Gabriel Baur,[5] Pansexual Public Porn (1998) by Del laGrace Volcano, and the Making of Dandy Dust (2001) by Tina Keane.[2][6]

Flaming Ears (1991)

Also known as Rote Ohren fetzen durch Asche, Flaming Ears is an 83-minute post-apocalyptic feature film directed by A. Hans Scheirl, Ursula Pürrer, and Dietmar Schipek.[1][6] The film focuses on three women, Spy, Volley, and Nun in the city of Asche in the year 2700 and draws on themes of romantics and lesbianism.

Dandy Dust (1998)

Dandy Dust is a 94-minute experimental sci-fi feature film directed, written, and produced by Scheirl.[6] The film features a gender fluid cyborg character that time travels to discovers parts of past self-consciousness.[4] This film features a fragmented plot, nudity, stop motion animation, gritty visuals, and themes of sex and sexuality through the use of bodily fluids and prosthetic reproductive organs. Characters in the film include Dandy Dust, Super Mother Cyniborg XVII Duchess of Loft & Spire, Sir Sidore, and Spider Cunt Boy.[1]

Art

Scheirl has been creating paintings since 1995 and became the Professor for "Contextual Painting" at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna, Austria in 2006.[2]

Filmography
Year Title Co-Directors Length
1979 Straßbilder 11 min
1979 Ein ester Lebensmittelfilm 5 min
1979 Hände Hoch! 160 sec
1979 Artistin in de Zirkuskuppel und Hezattacke 110 sec
1980 Men & Masks 2 2 min
1980 Noch Kokoseis 3 min
1980 Saxofone & Spione 5 min
1980 Charles tanzt 3 min
1980 Paris 1 min
1980 Meyva Suyu 40 sec
1980 Gerüstfilm 3 min
1980 For Men` 1 min
1981 Straße II Loop
1981 The Ascension 4 min
1981 Tigerin 2 min
1981 Bei dieser Geschwindigkeit fetzen die Haare 3 min
1983 Musikfilm: DNA 2 min
1983 Jocasta taucht auf 5 min
1983 Orlando 3 min
1983 Frau Zemo 9 min
1984 anna alpha nacht 15 min
1984 Men & Masks II 4 min
1984 Ostern '84 Ursula Pürrer 6 min
1984 Piß in Rosa Ursula Pürrer 2 min
1984 Bauchtanz Ursula Pürrer 5 min
1984 Wald- und Wiesenfilm Ursula Pürrer 3 min
1984 Anna Wackelt Ursula Pürrer 2 min
1984 Metall & Blumen Ursula Pürrer 3 min
1984 Sex & Crime Ursula Pürrer 3 min
1984 Kampf und Kuß Ursula Pürrer 3 min
1984 Hochhaus & Reißverschluß Ursula Pürrer 1 min
1984 Nacht-Plakat-U-Bahn Ursula Pürrer 5 min
1984 Maria Meistert Metall und Anna Arbeitet Anständig Ursula Pürrer 3 min
1984 LGP Ursula Pürrer 3 min
1985 Body Building (with Zora Marie Bauer) Ursula Pürrer 3 min
1985 Das Schwarze Herz Tropft - Bastelanleitung zu - rinnen Ursula Pürrer 11 min
1985 Gezacktes Rinnsal schleicht sich schamlos schenkelnässend an Ursula Pürrer 4 min
1985 Im Garten der Gelben G. Ursula Pürrer 9 min
1985 Rhabarber & Zucker Ursula Pürrer 1 min
1985 Ein Schlauchboot & Austern Ursula Pürrer 3 min
1985 Super-8 Girl-Games Ursula Pürrer 2 min
1985 Rote Schnitte und die Luft dazwischen Ursula Pürrer 4 min
1985 Gleichzetig nackt 2 min
1986 Im Original farbig Ursula Pürrer 14 min
1986 Slocking Walkman (music video) Ursula Pürrer

Dietmar Schipek

 2 min
1989 The Abbotess & the Flying Bone (16mm) Dietmar Schipek 18 min
1990 Die Vampirin auf der Kraftwagenbedarfsstation (35mm)

(Cinema-Spot for Mörderinnen Film Festival)

 Ursula Pürrer

Dietmar Schipek

 35 sec
1992 Rote Ohren fetzen durch Asche (Flaming Ears) (16mm) Ursula Pürrer

Dietmar Schipek

 84 min
1993 The Savings Pouch

(TV-Spot for First Sex Channel 4 U.K.)

 1 min
1994 Dandy Dust - The Showreel 6 min
1995 Summer of 1995 Jewels Barker 10 min
1995 Dandy Dust - The Trailer 10 min
1996 1/2 Frösche Ficken Flink 17 min
1998 Dandy Dust (16mm) 94 min

[7]

Awards

In 2012, Scheirl received the "Kunstpreis der Stadt Wien" and the "Jane Bowles Serious Elegance CHEAPy Underground Über Alles for Sci-fi DIY Aesthetic Innovation and Gender Creative Visionary Art" awards.[2]

References
  1. Kunziar, Alice (2000). The Queer German Cinema. Stanford: Stanford University Press.
  2. "bio - Hans Scheirl". hansscheirl.jimdo.com. Retrieved 2016-10-18.
  3. Finney, Gail (2006). Visual Culture in Twentieth-Century Germany: Text as Spectacle. Bloomington: Indiana University Press.
  4. Wagner, Anthony Claire. "On Elves and Beast: An Intervention into Normative Imaginaries" (PDF). Graduate Journal of Social Science. 7.
  5. The Advocate, 2 Sep 2003 The Advocate, p. 55, at Google Books
  6. Daniel, Lisa; Jackson, Claire (2003). The Bent Lens. Crows Nest: Allen & Unwin.
  7. "films: filmography - Hans Scheirl". hansscheirl.jimdo.com. Retrieved 2016-10-18.
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