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Paul Poet is a maverick filmmaker from Vienna, Austria, developing out of the local underground scene of Punk, techno and multimedia subversion. After years as media scientist, internationally writing popculture critic and theoretician as well as hardcore singer, event organiser and activist he jumped to moviemaking in 96 with shorts and musicvideos.
2002 saw the debut of his feature doc FOREIGNERS OUT! SCHLINGENSIEFS CONTAINER (Winner Remi Award Houston Worldfest 2003) about the propably biggest public sociopolitical prank in history, when a concentration camp styled after the Big Brother show was placed in Vienna for a week to protest the European drift to the extreme right.
One of three follow up features dealing with the theme of separation and resistance in a klose-knit globalised world will follow the micronation phenomenon in a worldwide utopian travelogue, starting with the Amorph!-festival. Working title:
EMPIRE SABOTAGE - WAR OF THE MICRONATIONS
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