‘In the year 2700 – the year of the toad – “Asche” was a burned out city. Too big for its souls, who flocked together in dark cellars, it was an irrepressible wild animal, ready to piss in the face of death at any time. And its inhabitants were able to hold their own with it. The chances of a pure heart surviving were highly improbable.’ … This is how Austria’s first and perhaps most important contribution to the queer film avantgarde, the experimental feature film Flaming Ears begins. A no-budget production in which Vienna’s feminist, queer avantgarde performance-music scene serves as the ensemble, it is a wild, elliptically narrated tour de force abounding with sound and image aphorisms in the future of a ruined city, through which the protagonists with the meaningful monikers of Spy, Volley, Nun, and M dance, fight, fuck, love, and hate. Besides the people, things also play a decisive role. (Andrea B. Braidt)

• Sektion Section: Film
• Programm Programme: Rote Ohren fetzen durch Asche / Flaming Ears