Hans Scheirl, also known as A. Hans Scheirl, 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." He has also performed in some experimental groups including the music group "8 oder 9" in Vienna in 1978. 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."
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.
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). 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. He has also stated that his intention with film is to create a new medium of communication through film. Scheirl had taken part in numerous films including Venus Boyz (2002) by Gabriel Baur,The Advocate, 2 Sep 2003 Pansexual Public Porn (1998) by Del laGrace Volcano, and the Making of Dandy Dust (2001) by Tina Keane.
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. 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. The film features a gender fluid cyborg character that time travels to discovers parts of past self-consciousness. 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.
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.
Filmography YearTitleCo-DirectorsLength1979Straßbilder11 min1979Ein ester Lebensmittelfilm5 min1979Hände Hoch!160 sec1979Artistin in de Zirkuskuppel und Hezattacke110 sec1980Men & Masks 22 min1980Noch Kokoseis 3 min1980Saxofone & Spione 5 min1980Charles tanzt3 min1980Paris1 min1980Meyva Suyu40 sec1980Gerüstfilm3 min1980For Men`1 min1981Straße IILoop1981The Ascension4 min1981Tigerin 2 min1981Bei dieser Geschwindigkeit fetzen die Haare3 min1983Musikfilm: DNA2 min1983Jocasta taucht auf5 min1983Orlando3 min1983Frau Zemo9 min1984anna alpha nacht15 min1984Men & Masks II4 min1984Ostern '84Ursula Pürrer6 min1984Piß in Rosa Ursula Pürrer2 min1984BauchtanzUrsula Pürrer5 min1984Wald- und WiesenfilmUrsula Pürrer3 min1984Anna Wackelt Ursula Pürrer2 min1984Metall & BlumenUrsula Pürrer3 min1984Sex & CrimeUrsula Pürrer3 min1984Kampf und KußUrsula Pürrer3 min1984Hochhaus & ReißverschlußUrsula Pürrer1 min1984Nacht-Plakat-U-BahnUrsula Pürrer5 min1984Maria Meistert Metall und Anna Arbeitet AnständigUrsula Pürrer3 min1984LGPUrsula Pürrer3 min1985Body Building (with Zora Marie Bauer)Ursula Pürrer3 min1985Das Schwarze Herz Tropft - Bastelanleitung zu - rinnenUrsula Pürrer11 min1985Gezacktes Rinnsal schleicht sich schamlos schenkelnässend anUrsula Pürrer4 min1985Im Garten der Gelben G.Ursula Pürrer9 min1985Rhabarber & Zucker Ursula Pürrer1 min 1985Ein Schlauchboot & AusternUrsula Pürrer3 min1985Super-8 Girl-GamesUrsula Pürrer2 min1985Rote Schnitte und die Luft dazwischenUrsula Pürrer4 min1985Gleichzetig nackt2 min1986Im Original farbig Ursula Pürrer14 min1986Slocking Walkman (music video)Ursula Pürrer Dietmar Schipek2 min1989The Abbotess & the Flying Bone (16mm)Dietmar Schipek18 min1990Die Vampirin auf der Kraftwagenbedarfsstation (35mm) (Cinema-Spot for Mörderinnen Film Festival)Ursula Pürrer Dietmar Schipek35 sec1992Rote Ohren fetzen durch Asche (Flaming Ears) (16mm)Ursula Pürrer Dietmar Schipek84 min1993The Savings Pouch (TV-Spot for First Sex Channel 4 U.K.)1 min1994Dandy Dust - The Showreel6 min1995Summer of 1995 Jewels Barker10 min1995Dandy Dust - The Trailer 10 min19961/2 Frösche Ficken Flink17 min1998Dandy Dust (16mm)94 min
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.
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