Ai Weiwei
1) Human Flow
Publisher
Participant Media
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Over 65 million people around the world have been forced from their homes to escape famine, climate change and war in the greatest human displacement since World War II. HUMAN FLOW, an epic film journey led by the internationally renowned artist Ai Weiwei, gives a powerful visual expression to this massive human migration. The documentary elucidates both the staggering scale of the refugee crisis and its profoundly personal human impact. Official...
2) Coronation
Publisher
Ai Weiwei
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Coronation (2020) is a documentary film about the lockdown in Wuhan during the Covid-19 outbreak in the spring of 2020.
Publisher
Ai Weiwei Studio
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
On the afternoon of May 12, 2008, an 8.0-magnitude earthquake hit Wenchuan County in northern Sichuan Province, devastating a vast area of mountainous terrain and killing some 70,000 people, including thousands of children who were in school when it hit. Around the country, concerned citizens began to question why the government-built school buildings collapsed so easily, burying thousands of children alive, when other edifices had withstood the strike....
4) Fairytale
Publisher
Ai Weiwei Studio
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
In 2007 Artist Ai Weiwei took part in Documenta 12 with a participatory event called Fairytale, named after the Brothers Grimm who were born near Kassel, the German city that hosts the famed art exhibition. Ai invited 1,001 people from China, many of whom had never been abroad before, to travel to Germany, live in a dormitory of Ai's design, and freely wander the city and the exhibition. Ai's studio recruited the applicants from the Internet. He also...
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