DANDY DUST
Dir. A. Hans Scheirl, 1998
Austria. 94 min.
In English

TUESDAY, JANUARY 09 – 7:30 PM
FRIDAY, JANUARY 12 – MIDNIGHT
FRIDAY, JANUARY 26 – 10 PM

Dust, a split-personality cyborg of fluid gender, zooms through time and space in search of his/her own memories and a sense of understanding. S/he travels from the Planet of White Dust where war is constant, to the Planet of Blood and Swelling, a hybrid of his/her father’s body.

A cyborg with a split personality and fluid gender zooms through time to collect his/her selves in a struggle against a family obsessed by lineage: This cartoon-like futuristic low-budget horror satire by the Austro-British filmmaker Hans Scheirl turns the real into the absurd, for the duration of a small cybernetic, chemo-sexual film adventure at least. Identity is just a matter of creativity, and far beyond cinema’s limitations.
—Stefan Grissemann