Movies: Ai Weiwei

  • 2015
    Straight

    Straight (2015)

    Straight

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    On May 12, 2008, Sichuan province suffered a devastating earthquake with thousands of deaths and many more injured and displaced. School buildings constructed from substandard materials, by corrupt government officials and contractors, collapsed, cau...

    Straight
  • 2013
    Ai Weiwei: The Fake Case

    Ai Weiwei: The Fake Case (2013)

    Ai Weiwei: The Fake Case

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    After 81 days of solitary detention world famous Chinese artist Ai Weiwei is put under house arrest. He suffers from sleeping disorder and memory loss, 18 cameras are monitoring his studio and home, police agents follow his every move, and heavy rest...

    Ai Weiwei: The Fake Case
  • 2014
    The Sand Storm

    The Sand Storm (2014)

    The Sand Storm

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    In the not-quite end-times, a woman, a man, a lover and a water smuggler navigate a tumultuous future city on the brink of a water shortage. A "low-fi sci-fi film" secretly made in China....

    The Sand Storm
  • 2012
    So Sorry

    So Sorry (2012)

    So Sorry

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    As a sequel to Ai Weiwei’s film "Disturbing the Peace," the film "So Sorry" (named after the artist’s 2009 exhibition in Munich, Germany) shows the beginnings of the tension between Ai Weiwei and the Chinese Government. In "So Sorry," you see the inv...

    So Sorry
  • 2012
    Ordos 100

    Ordos 100 (2012)

    Ordos 100

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    "Ordos 100" provides a picture of an Ai Weiwei at the pinnacle of his artistic fame, but not yet in the political hot water that was to give him a different kind of notoriety. The film centers on a grand architecture project in Ordos, to be designed ...

    Ordos 100
  • 2007
    Fairytale

    Fairytale (2007)

    Fairytale

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    Fairytale chronicles the making of an installation-cum-performance of the same name. In 2007, Ai Weiwei invited 1001 Chinese citizens of varying ages and backgrounds to travel to Kassel, Germany, for one week each, all expenses paid. This film descri...

    Fairytale
  • 2025
    Ai Weiwei's Turandot

    Ai Weiwei's Turandot (2025)

    Ai Weiwei's Turandot

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    There's a first time for everything, and thus Chinese multi-disciplinary artist Ai Weiwei set out to make his debut as an opera director, with an entire film crew following the meticulous preparations of this endeavour. Ai Weiwei's Turandot provides ...

    Ai Weiwei's Turandot
  • 2019
    The Rest

    The Rest (2019)

    The Rest

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    Europe's refugees are met at eye level in a film by the Chinese artist Ai Weiwei, who defends the ideals of humanism in the midst of the crisis....

    The Rest
  • 2019
    Ai Weiwei: Yours Truly

    Ai Weiwei: Yours Truly (2019)

    Ai Weiwei: Yours Truly

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    Ai Weiwei, famous for his large-scale installation work and his dogged social justice advocacy, created a career-defining work in 2015 with @Large, mounted at Alcatraz, the emblematic site associated with egregious incarceration conditions and radica...

    Ai Weiwei: Yours Truly
  • 2009
    Disturbing the Peace

    Disturbing the Peace (2009)

    Disturbing the Peace

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    "Disturbing the Peace" is a documentary of an incident during Tan Zuoren's trial on August 12, 2009. Tan Zuoren was charged with inciting subversion of state power. Chengdu police detained witnessed during the trial of the civil rights advocate, whic...

    Disturbing the Peace
  • 2010
    A Beautiful Life

    A Beautiful Life (2010)

    A Beautiful Life

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    The Shanghai authorities rejected Feng Zhenghu, originated from Wenzhou, Jiejiang, China, from returning to the country for a total of eight times in 2009. On November 4, 2009, Feng Zhenghu attempted to return home for the ninth time but the police f...

    A Beautiful Life
  • 2012
    KUN 13: Criticizing Ai Weiwei and Wu Haohao

    KUN 13: Criticizing Ai Weiwei and Wu Haohao (2012)

    KUN 13: Criticizing Ai Weiwei and Wu Haohao

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    An uncomfortable encounter between the filmmaker and the famed artist....

    KUN 13: Criticizing Ai Weiwei and Wu Haohao
  • 2012
    The Crab House

    The Crab House (2012)

    The Crab House

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    Early in 2008, the district government of Jiading, Shanghai invited Ai Weiwei to build a studio in Malu Township, as a part of the local government's efforts in developing its cultural assets. By August 2010, the Ai Weiwei Shanghai Studio completed a...

    The Crab House
  • 2015
    Fukushima Art Project

    Fukushima Art Project (2015)

    Fukushima Art Project

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    In August 2014, Ai Weiwei was invited as one of the participating artists for the Fukushima Nuclear Zone by the Japanese art coalition Chim↑Pom, as part of the project "Don't Follow the Wind". Ai accepted the invitation and sent his assistant Ma Yan ...

    Fukushima Art Project
  • 2012
    Beijing: The Third Ring

    Beijing: The Third Ring (2012)

    Beijing: The Third Ring

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    Beijing: The Third Ring is a document of the two opposite views of traffic flow on 55 bridges along Beijing’s Third Ring. The entire piece is made up of 110 segments....

    Beijing: The Third Ring
  • 2010
    Ai Weiwei: Sunflower Seeds

    Ai Weiwei: Sunflower Seeds (2010)

    Ai Weiwei: Sunflower Seeds

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    Art is a tool to set up new questions. An interview with Ai Weiwei about the work behind is installation "Sunflower Seeds", on display at Tate Modern from 12 October 2010 to 2 May 2011. Sunflower Seeds is made up of millions of small works, each appa...

    Ai Weiwei: Sunflower Seeds
  • 2011
    Flower Good Moon Round

    Flower Good Moon Round (2011)

    Flower Good Moon Round

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    In the summer of 2010, the Chinese government began a crackdown on dissent, and Hua Hao Yue Yuan documents the stories of Liu Dejun and Liu Shasha, whose activism and outspoken attitude led them to violent abuse from the authorities. On separate occa...

    Flower Good Moon Round
  • 2018
    Ai Weiwei en Buenos Aires

    Ai Weiwei en Buenos Aires (2018)

    Ai Weiwei en Buenos Aires

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    The documentary registers with detail this first visit to Argentina. It's a meditation on the artistic and conceptual processes that Ai Weiwei needs to think of his art. The images dialogue between the director and his instagram, revealing an intimat...

    Ai Weiwei en Buenos Aires
  • 2009
    Little Girl's Cheeks

    Little Girl's Cheeks (2009)

    Little Girl's Cheeks

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    On December 15, 2008, a citizens' investigation began with the goal of seeking an explanation for the casualties of the Sichuan earthquake that happened on May 12, 2008. The investigation covered 14 counties and 74 townships within the disaster zone,...

    Little Girl's Cheeks
  • 2012
    The Mala Desert

    The Mala Desert (2012)

    The Mala Desert

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    The story of an encounter between a member of the 50-cent army (web commentator) and a netizen, in an attempt to resolve an online conflict....

    The Mala Desert