Ursula Pürrer

What did the Pope know about the Holocaust? (2020)

The Vatican opened once-secret records on Pope Pius XII on March 2020. This gave researchers a brand new insight into the Catholic Church during the Nazi era. What did the Pope know about the Holocaust? ...

Demokratie unter Druck – Europa vor der Wahl (2019)

Thoughts of a diversity of public and private citizens on the virtues of democracy, its faults, its decadence, its fall and the rise of populism. ...

Hitler's Hollywood (2017)

Film journalist and critic Rüdiger Suchsland examines German cinema from 1933, when the Nazis came into power, until 1945, when the Third Reich collapsed. (A sequel to From Caligari to Hitler, 2015. ...

Der Architekt Antoni Gaudí - Mythos und Wirklichkeit (2006)

1.5 Frogs Fuck Fest (1995)

These shorts, executed between 1984 and 1986 in Vienna, exude an amazingly fresh intimacy and vitality. Referred to by the filmmakers as "home movies", they record actionistic performances in the directors' own living quarters, with added soundtracks of in ...

Flaming Ears (1992)

In the year 2700, a comic book artist encounters a mysterious alien while seeking revenge against the pyromaniac who burned down her printing presses. ...

The Drift of Juicy (1989)

A possible staging of spaces; artificial places, in which the laws—of physical, social or cultural origins—are expanded, changed, ignored, perverted or transformed. ...

Zigzagged Rivulet Sneaks Up Shamelessly Wetting Thighs (1985)

Bodies and fluids, bodily fluids and fluid bodies. ...

A Rubber Dinghy and Oysters (1985)

Lunatics in the subway Take a break at the diner Goggles seen from near Astrid is very seductive and reprimands the child Favorite family-shots sneaking in Make a move upside down Toilette and confusion in orange light Marching on the meadow and t ...

Black Heart Leaking – Instruction for Amateur Constructor Female (1985)

The plant is padded and bounces, the heart is padded and drops. Objects fill the lead roles: swaying plants with succulent leaves; and vases, tall and lean like the torsos of young women. Metal and plastic foil, leather straps and piles of flour, enigmatic ...

Tender Buttons (1985)

A filmic homage to Gertrude Stein's "Tender Buttons": Everyday objects and especially house plants are imbued with cubist dimensions – everything moves, everything is alive. Lesbian fellowship swims like fish in the water to a shore of ruins – this cit ...

Easter 84 (1984)

Pürrer and Scheirl as naughty Easter bunnies create their own visual rhyme on Easter: Catholic excess and Christ kitsch become drowned out by undulating sounds and shimmering foil. Jesus pin-up and corpse of Christ reenactment included. ...

Bodybuilding (1984)

Games with muscles, games with power, SM games. The naked body employed as a prop. Perceptions of one's own body are the focus of Body-building, and it leaves the good-girl role far behind, sometimes in striking poses, sometimes in martial dress. ...

Super-8 Girl Games (1984)

These shorts, executed between 1984 and 1986 in Vienna, exude an amazingly fresh intimacy and vitality. Referred to by the filmmakers as »home movies«, they record actionistic performances in the directors' own living quarters, with added soundtracks of ...

Flaming Ears (1992)

In the year 2700, a comic book artist encounters a mysterious alien while seeking revenge against the pyromaniac who burned down her printing presses. ...

The Assault - They didn't know what to do (1989)

Sabotage acts are committed on the film theaters of a city for no apparent reason. Two secretaries of "Mega Film", which has been damaged by a sabotage act, decide to try to find the saboteurs in order to determine what their motives are. ...