A Cyborg of fluid Gender, crashlands on the planet of '3075'.
“Tranny Fest 1998 Program.” Tranny Fest, November 1998. Personal Archives.
Split-personality and fluid-gender Dandy zooms through time to recollect h-selves
in this mixed-media, transgendered, noize/splatter/scifi/horror-comix feature film.
In this exploration of the Freudian family drama Scheirl celebrates a fascination
with the brutal, erotic and repulsive.
Dandy Dust is influenced by Japanese body-horror and live action manga comics like
Tsukamoto's film 'Tetsuo' as well as by Hong Kong martial arts and ghost story films
mixed with the Viennese Actionists' preoccupation with body fluids, all with Scheirl's
specifically queer trans sensibility of the cyborg vision of all post-gender society.
These cyborgs or transgender monsters disrupt conventional gender discourse by the
juxtaposition of nature and technology on their hybrid bodies.
According to Scheirl, '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 ex 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." (Sarah Teasley)
“The Second International Transgender Film & Video Festival Program.” London: Alchemy
Festival Productions, 1998. Personal Archives.
