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| Filmmaker Hans Scheirl calls latest feature Dandy Dust a "transgendered noise/splatter/horror-comix feature-film." In its most basic guise, Dandy Dust is a splatter-filled horror "family drama" about a "Cyborg techno-human of fluid gender" who attempts to reconcile various former, present and future selves through a series of fetishistic sexual fantasies. Several levels inside, however, the film is a complex examination of themes as diverse as the relationship between body and machine, the simultaneous attraction and repulsion that violence induces, and the interplay between violence, eroticism and ritual. As Scheirl says, "Dandy Dust is not just a film, but a mythology and a forum for contemporary cyborgs: people who are living experimental lives, who won't ever take any traditional notions of sex and gender and family and genre for granted again. " Dandy Dust is the extreme, visceral and ultimately indescribable working out of Scheirl's own, very personal vision of a gender-free and hyperpolysexual world. To warm up for all this, we will screen The Room, a French fast-forward history of a hotel room where many fun things happen. |
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(*Tetsuo*) and Hong Kong's Tsui Hark as influences, filmmaker Hans Scheirl first set the talking heads of the queer cinematic world alight with the cult-status Flaming Ears (1992), described by queer film promoter-diva Jenni Olson as a film that "stakes out a new lesbian aesthetic for the '90s." |
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