TV Guide.com calls it a "dismal miasma of butch posturing," and "a festival of ugliness."

MIX NYC calls it "fabulous" and "a beloved classic!" Let's celebrate the 20th anniversary of this groundbreaking masterpiece of dyke filmmaking!

Collaborators shared acting, writing, filming and every other aspect of the production of this highly stylized, science fiction dystopian lesbian romance. Flaming Ears was shot in super-8 and blown up to 16mm. This process gives the film a grainy quality on top of its brightly colored costumes and sets, setting up the viewer to contemplate the landscape of a shabby but vivid low-budget future. The film is set in the year 2700, but we may learn more about the year 1991 by observing the contents of this time capsule of the queer imagination.

Keep an eye out for Spy drawing comics, Volley setting fires and Nun eating reptiles. Keep an eye out for stop-motion animation, clunky special effects and that infamous furniture sex scene. There is so much to look at, but don't get too caught up looking for the plot line! With minimal dialog, spoken sometimes in metaphors, the images create their own iconography of a sexy but bleak future bursting with fetish attire and violence. Relying on tactile images more than words, we see fire, water, smoking, tea drinking, roller-skating and dancing. The film requires our careful attention and yet is simultaneously forgiving of our wandering minds as it conveys more a sensibility than a narrative. In the abandoned and desolate city of Asche, the world is inhabited almost entirely by lesbians. Hands get blown off, bombs get blown up and guns get fired. Nearly every detail of this film is cryptic, with symbolism and stylization going so far in the end as to transform one of the characters into a cardboard cutout. Let's wear our dark cyberpunk best for this late night screening - And bring on the strange!

"I am a woman. I make films. I know how to work with a ridiculous budget: you can call me a master of improvisation. I'm lesbian and I have a preference for experiments, I am a strategist, a utopist. I am Volley. As simple as that. And Volley loves precision, ease, aggression, devotion and wit. I live in a special world, and I walk through the so-called world heavily armed." Ursula Pûrrer, director and actor

"They are female lone warriors, and they try to live their lives as intensely as possible and thus collide with each other somehow. lt's a matter of life and death. And love." A. Hans Scheirl, director and actor

(Artists quoted from Media Werk Statt Wien)