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 FP under Jrg Haider had become part of the government, the first time an extreme right wing party became state officials after WW2, infamous German shock director Christop...
In 2011, a year after his death, famously provocative German director Christoph Schlingensief received the Golden Lion at the Biennale Venezia for his legacy in art. Little did they know to what extremes he would go in unleashing his unique "social plastics", interactive challenging test areas, where audiences and actors are likewise dipped into an inspiring chaos. This Doc Min...
Two Persons. One Tape. One Interview. No Cuts. No tricks. One of the most brutal and disturbing pieces of oral history. Florence Burnier-Bauer was born in Paris in 1949 to an upper middle-class family with Russian roots. Raped by her Granddad at an early age and passed around in secret men's circles, she was hushed by electro-shocks in the insane asylum. Then she fled to the bo...
Don't dream it, be it: The Act of Killing goes Gender Frenzy. A psychedelically political psychogram of a right-wing transsexual and how he got to be what she is. Or so it seems.
In a recycling factory the machines dance, the workers join in song and the truck drivers almost do a ballet. The factory noise is a rhythm and a truck driver starts to sing a song for his love. He wants to build an island with the materials at hand where they can be together to ' sort things out'.