Flaming Ears (Puerrer/Schiel/Schipek, 1992): Barbican Cinema, 6.15pm
This film is part of the Queer 90s season at the Barbican. Full details here.
Barbican introduction: Take a walk on the wild side with this one-of-a-kind queer sci-fi extravaganza from Austria, featuring vengeful lesbians, sexed up pryomaniacs and reptile-loving aliens. It’s the year 2700 in the fictional burned-out city of Asche. Spy, a comic book artist, is dismayed when her printing presses and destroyed by pyromaniac Volley and seeks revenge. But when an amoral alien in a red plastic suit and a reptile obsession enters the story, things go even more off the rails.
Sit back and enjoy the mayhem of this jaw-dropping pop sci-fi lesbian marvel, co-directed by A. Hans Scheirl (Dandy Dust, 1998), Ursula Puerrer and Dietmar Schipek, who also star in the film. Connoisseurs of inventive DIY cinema will be in heaven. Trepidatious viewers may heed the advice of critic B. Ruby Rich - “Imagine the film that J.G. Ballard might have made if he’d been born an Austrian dyke, and don’t say I didn’t warn you.” Plus: ScreenTalk with co-director and actor Ursula Puerrer, hosted by film programmer Jaye Hudson @tgirlsonfilm
Here (and above) is the trailer.
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