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.
Known For | Directing |
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Most Rating | 2.238 |
Birthday | 1957-08-28 |
Place of Birth | Beijing, China |
Also Known As | 艾未未, Ài Wèiwèi, Weiwei Ai, Ai Wei-wei, |
2022
Ithaka
8.3/7
The campaign to free Julian Assange takes on intimate dimensions in this documentary portrait of an elderly man’s fight to save his son. Arguably the...
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Ithaka
2012
Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry
7/79
An account of the many tribulations that Chinese artist Ai Weiwei, known for his subversive art and political activism, endured between 2008 and 2011,...
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Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry
2009
Disturbing the Peace
6.2/2
"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 o...
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Disturbing the Peace
2017
Ai Weiwei Drifting
0/0
Ai Weiwei is a global star and an enigma. DW followed him for a year for this intimate portrait. The film shows Ai Weiwei at home, at work, and on the...
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Ai Weiwei Drifting
2022
Eric Ravilious: Drawn to War
0/0
One of Britain’s greatest landscape artists, Eric Ravilious, is killed in a plane crash while on commission as Official War Artist in Iceland in 1942....
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Eric Ravilious: Drawn to War
2014
Ai Weiwei's Appeal ¥15,220,910.50
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Ai Weiwei’s Appeal ¥15,220,910.50 opens with Ai Weiwei’s mother at the Venice Biennial in the summer of 2013 examining Ai’s large S.A.C.R.E.D. install...
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Ai Weiwei's Appeal ¥15,220,910.50
2023
Clockwork Orange: The Prophecy
9.5/2
Examines and re-evaluates the 60-year history and cultural impact of A Clockwork Orange, as a novel, movie and stage play, with the help of archival c...
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Clockwork Orange: The Prophecy
2019
Vincent van Gogh Superstar
6.5/1
Documentary about famous painter Vincent van Gogh.
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Vincent van Gogh Superstar
2014
The Sand Storm
5/3
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...
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The Sand Storm
2013
Ai Weiwei: The Fake Case
5/6
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...
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Ai Weiwei: The Fake Case
2010
Ai Weiwei: Without Fear or Favour
6.5/2
Arts documentary, first broadcast before Ai Weiwei's arrest by the Chinese authorities in April 2011, and his subsequent release after being detained...
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Ai Weiwei: Without Fear or Favour
2024
Free to Create - Artists in Exile
7/1
Artists forced to leave their country talk about the ambivalence of exile. With Iranian actress Golshifteh Farahani, Chinese artist Ai Weiwei, Sudanes...
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Free to Create - Artists in Exile
2014
Flowers of Taipei: Taiwan New Cinema
7.1/16
With Taiwan remaining in the grip of martial law in 1982, a group of filmmakers from that country set out to establish a cultural identity through cin...
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Flowers of Taipei: Taiwan New Cinema
2017
The Chinese Lives of Uli Sigg
5.7/3
Swiss collector Uli Sigg has played in the time of economic opening of China by Mao an essential role, which is still continuing. To better understand...
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The Chinese Lives of Uli Sigg
2011
Hormone
7/1
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Hormone
2014
Ai Weiwei - Evidence
6/1
Documentary about artist Ai Weiwei's 2014 exhibition in Berlin.
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Ai Weiwei - Evidence
2012
KUN 13: Criticizing Ai Weiwei and Wu Haohao
0/0
An uncomfortable encounter between the filmmaker and the famed artist.
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KUN 13: Criticizing Ai Weiwei and Wu Haohao
2018
Why Are We Creative?: The Centipede's Dilemma
7.7/16
A 30 years odyssey: the world's most intriguing artists and thinkers from the fields of visual art, music, filmmaking, acting, literature, philosophy,...
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Why Are We Creative?: The Centipede's Dilemma
2019
Propaganda: The Art of Selling Lies
6.7/12
From ancient cave paintings to Twitter feeds and deep fakes, propaganda's rapid progression hasn't compromised its potency. Tracing its effective use...
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Propaganda: The Art of Selling Lies
2019
The Rest
5/2
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.
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The Rest
2018
Ai Weiwei en Buenos Aires
0/0
The documentary registers with detail this first visit to Argentina. It's a meditation on the artistic and conceptual processes that Ai Weiwei needs t...
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Ai Weiwei en Buenos Aires
2019
Ai Weiwei: Yours Truly
8.8/2
Ai Weiwei, famous for his large-scale installation work and his dogged social justice advocacy, created a career-defining work in 2015 with @Large, mo...
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Ai Weiwei: Yours Truly
2009
Little Girl's Cheeks
0/0
On December 15, 2008, a citizens' investigation began with the goal of seeking an explanation for the casualties of the Sichuan earthquake that happen...
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