Foreigners out! Schlingensiefs Container (2002) ( Schlingensiefs Container - Chronik einer Kunstaktion )

Foreigners out! Schlingensiefs Container (2002) (DVD) (*)

~~$29.99~~ $23.97

Original Title: Schlingensiefs Container - Chronik einer Kunstaktion
Screened, competed or awarded at:
Other Film Festival Awards

Language Selections:
English ( Subtitles )
French ( Subtitles )
German ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )
German ( Subtitles )

Product Origin/Format:
Germany ( PAL/Region 0 )

Running Time:
90 min

Aspect Ratio:
Widescreen (1.78:1)

Special Features:
Cast/Crew Interview(s)
Interactive Menu
Scene Access

Movie filmed in 2002 and produced in:
Austria ( Germany, Central Europe )

Directed By:
Paul Poet

Written By:
Paul Poet

Actors:
Christoph Schlingensief ..... Himself
Matthias Lilienthal ..... Himself
Rainer Laux ..... Himself
Elfriede Jelinek ..... Herself
Einstürzende Neubauten ..... Themselves
Peter Sloterdijk ..... Himself
Helene Partik-Pablé ..... Herself
Burghart Schmidt ..... Himself
Carl Hegemann ..... Himself
Daniel Cohn-Bendit ..... Himself
Luc Bondy ..... Himself
Hans Bürger ..... Himself (archive footage)
Mario Garzaner ..... Himself
Gregor Gysi ..... Himself
Wowo Habdank ..... Caucasian Asylum Seeker
Claudia Kaloff ..... Herself
Dietrich Kuhlbrodt ..... Himself
Paulus Manker ..... Himself
Roman Rafreider ..... Himself (archive footage)
Peter Sellars ..... Himself
Armin Thurnher ..... Himself

Synopsis:

Foreigners out! Documents an actual event in which saw real asylum seekers sealed in a container, with the public asked to vote 'Big Brother' style for who they wanted to stay. It's a film with deep resonances with what's happening with asylum seekers in Austria.

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 passer-by's and two were thrown out of the country through web-voting. The way fascism looks in the 21st century: Bright. Sensational. Interactive. Funny - and frightening. Austria freaked out. Thousands of screaming people gathered. Attacks with knifes, beatings, acid occurred. Political intrigues. Headlines all over Europe. 800,000 worldwide joined via internet. An incredibly heated week, capturing the European right-wing drift in real time. Democracy the hard way.

Austria 2000: At the general election, Jörg Haider's FPÖ had met with widespread approval - and for the first time since WW2 a party of the extreme right joined the government. Never slow to react, infamous German director Christoph Schlingensief soon retaliated with an extraordinary form of protest. As a tangible satire on xenophobia, Big Brother madness and new nationalism Schlingensief decided to stage an interactive concentration camp - right at the heart of Vienna's picturesque tourist centre. And Austria just freaked - soon there were thousands of screaming people on site and almost a million connected worldwide via the Internet. Knife attacks. Punch-ups. Political intrigues. An incredibly heated week that captured the European drift to the right in real time. A hardcore route to democracy.

This product was added to our catalog on Monday 06 February, 2017.

Customers who bought this product also purchased

Northern Skirts (DVD)