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Information
- Year
- 1992
- Runtime
- 84 min.
- Directors
- A. Hans Scheirl, Ursula Puerrer, Dietmar Schipek
- Genres
- Sci-Fi, Fantasy
- Rating *
- 6.1
- Votes *
- 34
- Checks
- 16
- Favs
- 1
- Dislikes
- 0
- Favs/checks
- 6.3% (1:16)
- Favs/dislikes
- 1:0
Top comments
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Siskoid
My interest in lo-fi science fiction carried me through Flaming Ears (the actual title, translated from the German, would be closer to Red Ears Shred Through Ashes), because I was never quite sure what was going on. The year 2700 is a dystopian, post-gender world inhabited by androgynous rebels who may or may not only exist in a comic book artist's mind, though they are also PART of the world, and get into a love/hate feud with them. In a world of active rebellion - against religion, against sexual norms (and on this point, the film is well ahead of its time), against everything - the ultimate act may well be against one's own creator, and so the fiction tries to get away from the author. That's what I got out of it anyway, but each viewer will have their own impression, I'm sure. The Austrian underground film movement remains a mystery to me. I do like the low-budget world, however, with its model cities and expressionistic sky. 10 months 3 weeks ago