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Foreigners Out! Schlingensief's Container (2002)

★ 6.7/10 90 min Documentary Austria German
Director: Paul Poet
Writer: Paul Poet
Streaming: Not available
Democracy the hard way!

Description

FOREIGNERS OUT! SCHLINGENSIEFS CONTAINER is a thrilling, insightful, funny chronicle and reflection of one of he biggest public pranks and acts of art terrorism ever committed. Austria 2000: Right after the FPÖ under Jörg Haider had become part of the government, the first time an extreme right wing party became state officials after WW2, infamous German shock director Christoph Schlingensief showed a very unique form of protest. Realising public xenophobia and the new hate politics in the most drastic ways possible, he installed a public concentration camp right in the middle of Vienna's touristic heart, right beside the picturesque opera where hundreds of tourists and locals pass by daily. And it was no concentration camp you had ever feared to return from the old times, but one that cynically reflected our new multimedia culture. Satirising reality TV shows, "Big Brother" especially, a dozen asylum seekers were surveilled by a multitude of cameras, could be fed and watched by.

Top Cast

Christoph Schlingensief
Christoph Schlingensief Himself
Matthias Lilienthal
Matthias Lilienthal Himself
Rainer Laux Himself
Peter Sloterdijk Himself
Helene Partik-Pablé Herself
Burghart Schmidt Himself
Carl Hegemann Himself
Wowo Habdank
Wowo Habdank Caucasian Asylum Seeker

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