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Foreigners Out! Schlingensief's Container (2002)

Foreigners Out! Schlingensief's Container (2002)

Documentary

Democracy the hard way!

Release Date: 2002, March 22
Directors: Paul Poet
Countries: Austria
Production: Bonus Film
Cast: Carl Hegemann, Wowo Habdank, Rainer Laux, Matthias Lilienthal, Peter Sloterdijk, Helene Partik-Pablé, Burghart Schmidt

Overview:

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.

Keywords:

politics xenophobia austria art asylum seekers