Foreigners Out! Schlingensief's Container

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.

Details

Status

Released

Release date

March 22, 2002

Original language

German

Spoken languages

German

Countries

Austria

Production

Bonus Film

Cast

Christoph Schlingensief,Matthias Lilienthal,Rainer Laux,Peter Sloterdijk,Helene Partik-Pablé,Burghart Schmidt,Carl Hegemann,Wowo Habdank,Daniel Cohn-Bendit,Elfriede Jelinekand 2 more

Director

Paul Poet

Writer

Paul Poet

Producer

Paul Poet

Budget

Not recorded

Revenue

Not recorded

IMDb

tt0338040