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Based in china since 2006, she is the beijing correspondent for global radio news and her stories have also. Ai weiwei displays his solidarity with the refugees and goes to meet them in greece, turkey and gaza, producing a major documentary on the way. Ai weiweis first documentary human flow is an arresting depiction of the harrowing reality of mass global displacement. Alison klayman is the director of the upcoming documentary, ai weiwei. Human flow, an epic film journey led by the internationally renowned artist ai weiwei, gives a powerful visual expression to this massive human migration. Ais life as a subversive may have began as a child. Directed by alison klayman, produced by muse film and television. If there were any who doubted ai weiweis work matched his reputation, this rollercoaster of a show racing between his time in jail, the sichuan earthquake and 3,000 crabs should silence. Ai weiwei multilingual edition holzwarth, hans werner, weiwei, ai on. Ai weiwei is shaken, but during the year on probation he steadily finds new ways to provoke and challenge the mighty powers of the chinese authorities in his fight for human rights. Firsttime director, alison klayman, spent three years following weiwei as he prepared for major. Human flow, a film about the global refugee crisis shot in 23 countries that documents the artists. Ai weiweis human flow is a documentary that attempts the nearimpossible. Free ai weiwei is an information hub that started when the chinese artist and activist ai weiwei disappeared for 81 days in march 2011.
He is the son of poet ai ching ai ching or ai qing, pseud. Tan zuoren was charged with inciting subversion of state power. Without fear or favour, released by bbc ones imagine program earlier this year and recorded shortly prior to ai weiweis arrest, helps contextualize his work. Ai weiwei studio production disturbing the peace is a documentary discussing incidents during tan zuorens trial on august 12, 2009. Never sorry is a film about ai weiwei, a renowned chinese artist and activist who continually champions the values of democracy and human rights, and thus works in opposition to chinas authoritarian government. Recently, while standing under the circular display of massive bronze animal heads in ais circle of animalszodiac heads at washington, dcs hirshhorn museum, i found myself wishing i could meet him. How chinese artist ai weiwei became an enemy of the state. Never sorry is the first featurelength film about the internationally renowned chinese artist and activist, ai weiwei. Captured over the course of a year amid 23 countries, the film follows a chain of urgent human stories that stretches. Rentals include 30 days to start watching this video and 30 days to finish once started. This documentary is often like seeing a travelogue of the world, juxtaposed with a desperate sea of humanity seeking safety and better lives. Arts documentary, first broadcast before ai weiweis arrest by the chinese authorities in april 2011, and his subsequent release after being detained for 11 weeks. Ai weiweis provocative art has gotten him harassed by police, thrown in detention and driven out of china. Vivos is a documentary feature film by artist and filmmaker ai weiwei, portraying the human impact of mexicos ongoing crisis of enforced disappearances.
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Shot in 23 countries with more than 200 crew members, it compassionately yet honestly documents the unimaginable extent of the refugee crisis. Open in his criticism of the chinese government, ai was famously detained for months in 2011, then released to house arrest. Never sorry examines the complex intersection of artistic practice and social activism as seen through the life and art of chinas preeminent contemporary artist. After studying painting in france 192932, where he discovered realist literature and was particularly influenced by the belgian poet. Ai weiwei s deft use of social media has made him one of the most wellknown artists and dissidents in the world. Ai weiwei drifting art, awareness and the refugee crisis.
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