AT 1991, D Ursula Pürrer, Dietmar Schipek, Ashley Hans Scheirl, Cast Susanna Heilmayr, Ursula Pürrer, Ashley Hans Scheirl, Margarete Neumann, Gabriele Szekatsch, P Loop TV-Video Film Produktion, Print colour, DCP from Super-8, 84 min, german OV with engl. SUB, sixpackfilm

Angela [Ashley, editor's note] Ursula Pürrer and Dietmar Schipek are the names of the team behind this film, veteran Super 8 and video pirates, ritual deconstructers of cinematic forms. FLAMING EARS, which took them two years to make, employs a rough plot as a framework to be adorned with the artists’ nightmarish designs, painted sets and surreal objects. A pyromaniac named Volley strolls through the night, wantonly setting objects and dwellings ablaze. Spy, a comic book artist and one of Volley’s victims, becomes a violent loner while plotting to exact her revenge. And sinister Nun, Volley’s lover and an enthusiastic consumer of reptiles, is impending red-leather-clad betrayal for her fire-friendly companion, as she morphs into Spy’s accomplice. [...] Lovely stops along the way: apocalyptic depravity, audio tracks full of pulsing synthetic noise, the absolute physical commitment of the performers and stop-motion animation effects. (Stefan Grissemann, Die Presse published 20.03.1992)