Filmart Takes Position: Alien / Nation

Film Art Takes Position is the name of an international appeal for artistic contributions issued and organised by Sixpack Film Vienna every two or three years. On each time there is a new theme concerning a social and political topic in the widest sense of the term. Alien/Nation has been chosen as the theme of the first film reel to enable film artists publically to state their position, something they rarely have an opportunity to. The upsurge of problems of social exclusion, migration, prejudice, political and governmental repression and the global feeling of threat and alienation have been the themes of the films submitted throughout 1996. The only limitation was that the contribution should not exceed five minutes in length. 172 Films and videos were submitted, 15 works from 7 countries were selected.