Ai Weiwei
Ai Weiwei is a Chinese contemporary artist and activist. Ai grew up in the far north-west of China, where he lived under harsh conditions due to his father's exile. As an activist, he has been openly critical of the Chinese Government's stance on democracy and human rights. He investigated government corruption and cover-ups, in particular the Sichuan schools corruption scandal following the collapse of schools in the 2008 Sichuan earthquake. In 2011, Ai Weiwei was arrested at Beijing Capital International Airport on 3 April, for allegedly economic crimes. He was detained for 81 days without charge. Ai Weiwei emerged as a vital instigator in Chinese cultural development, an architect of Chinese modernism, and one of the nation's most vocal political commentators. Ai Weiwei encapsulates political conviction and his personal poetry in his many sculptures, photographs and public works. In doing this, he makes use of Chinese art forms to display the Chinese political and social issues. After being allowed to leave China in 2015, he has lived in Berlin, Germany, and, since 2019, in Cambridge, UK, with his family, working and traveling internationally.
Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry
as Self - ArtistAn account of the many tribulations that Chinese artist Ai Weiwei, known for his subversive art...
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Why Are We Creative?: The Centipede's Dilemma
as SelfA 30 years odyssey: the world's most intriguing artists and thinkers from the fields of visual...
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Vincent van Gogh Superstar
as SelfDocumentary about famous painter Vincent van Gogh.
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Flowers of Taipei: Taiwan New Cinema
as SelfWith Taiwan remaining in the grip of martial law in 1982, a group of filmmakers from that...
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Propaganda: The Art of Selling Lies
as uncreditedFrom ancient cave paintings to Twitter feeds and deep fakes, propaganda's rapid progression...
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Clockwork Orange: The Prophecy
as HimselfExamines and re-evaluates the 60-year history and cultural impact of A Clockwork Orange, as a...
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Ai Weiwei: The Fake Case
as uncreditedAfter 81 days of solitary detention world famous Chinese artist Ai Weiwei is put under house...
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Ai Weiwei: Sunflower Seeds
as HimselfArt is a tool to set up new questions. An interview with Ai Weiwei about the work behind is...
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The Chinese Lives of Uli Sigg
as uncreditedSwiss collector Uli Sigg has played in the time of economic opening of China by Mao an essential...
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Ai Weiwei - Evidence
as HimselfDocumentary about artist Ai Weiwei's 2014 exhibition in Berlin.
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Ithaka
as SelfThe campaign to free Julian Assange takes on intimate dimensions in this documentary portrait of...
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Disturbing the Peace
as Self"Disturbing the Peace" is a documentary of an incident during Tan Zuoren's trial on August 12,...
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Ai Weiwei: Yours Truly
as SelfAi Weiwei, famous for his large-scale installation work and his dogged social justice advocacy,...
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Ai Weiwei en Buenos Aires
as HimselfThe documentary registers with detail this first visit to Argentina. It's a meditation on the...
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Ai Weiwei's Appeal ¥15,220,910.50
as SelfAi Weiwei’s Appeal ¥15,220,910.50 opens with Ai Weiwei’s mother at the Venice Biennial in the...
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Eric Ravilious: Drawn to War
as uncreditedOne of Britain’s greatest landscape artists, Eric Ravilious, is killed in a plane crash while on...
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The Rest
as uncreditedEurope's refugees are met at eye level in a film by the Chinese artist Ai Weiwei, who defends...
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Ai Weiwei: Without Fear or Favour
as uncreditedArts documentary, first broadcast before Ai Weiwei's arrest by the Chinese authorities in April...
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The Sand Storm
as uncreditedIn the not-quite end-times, a woman, a man, a lover and a water smuggler navigate a tumultuous...
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Eat, Drink and Be Merry
as SelfIn 2003, the infectious disease SARS quickly spread across China, causing widespread panic. At...
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Little Girl's Cheeks
as uncreditedOn December 15, 2008, a citizens' investigation began with the goal of seeking an explanation...
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KUN 13: Criticizing Ai Weiwei and Wu Haohao
as HimselfAn uncomfortable encounter between the filmmaker and the famed artist.
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Ai Weiwei Drifting
as SelfAi Weiwei is a global star and an enigma. DW followed him for a year for this intimate portrait....
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The Daily Show
as SelfThe World's Fakest News Team tackle the biggest stories in news, politics and pop culture.
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Bambi Awards
as SelfThe Bambi, often called the Bambi Award and stylised as BAMBI, is a German award presented...
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Firing Line with Margaret Hoover
as uncreditedJoin author, activist and commentator Margaret Hoover for a public affairs talk show that...
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Laogai: Prison Nation - Inside China's Ruling System
as Self - IntervieweeAfter the founding of the People's Republic of China in 1949, Mao Tsetung established a system...
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