Dear John

In DEAR JOHN, Scheugl looks back on his time as a young man in the mid-1960s. Back then, he met an American in Greece who later visited him in Vienna and wrote him longing letters from the United States—until he was drafted into the Army for the Vietnam War.

“The entire film is conceived as a dialogue across continents and decades: individual sentences or paragraphs from John’s typewritten letters, layered over the images, alternate with Hans’s present-day reflections on their friendship, his unprofitable art, and the state of the world.”
(Michael Omasta, 2015)

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HOMELESS NEW YORK 1990 focuses on the widespread poverty that became visible in the 1980s as a result of the neoliberal policies unleashed under President Reagan.

PRINCE OF PEACE is a formally rigorous miniature exploring gay desire and hardship.
(Dietmar Schwärzler)

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Prince of Peace
Director: Hans Scheugl
Country: AT
Year: 1993
Cinematography: Reinhard Kofler
Music: Ulf Langheinrich
Format: DCP, color
Version: No dialogue
Length: 8 min

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Homeless New York 1990
Director: Hans Scheugl
Country: AT
Year: 1990/2013
Cinematography: Jeff Hirschhorn
Music: Ulf Langheinrich
Format: DCP, color
Version: English original version
Length: 18 min