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

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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]

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References

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

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[:0-1] Kunziar, Alice (2000). The Queer German Cinema. Stanford: Stanford University Press.

[:1-2] "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.

[:2-4] 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

[:3-6] Daniel, Lisa; Jackson, Claire (2003). The Bent Lens. Crows Nest: Allen & Unwin.

[7] "films: filmography - Hans Scheirl". hansscheirl.jimdo.com. Retrieved 2016-10-18.