Foreigners Out! Schlingensief's Container(2002)

Foreigners Out! Schlingensief's Container Synopsis

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.

Foreigners Out! Schlingensief's Container (2002) is a documentary film directed by Paul Poet, released on March 22, 2002 with a runtime of 1h 30m. It stars Christoph Schlingensief, Matthias Lilienthal, Rainer Laux and Peter Sloterdijk. Viewers rate it 6.7 out of 10 across 13 ratings.