Ai Weiwei Movies
- 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...
- 2022
Eric Ravilious: Drawn to War
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One of Britain’s greatest landscape artists, Eric Ravilious, is killed in a plane crash while on commission as Official War Artist in Iceland...
- 2012
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At 14:28 on May 12, 2008, an 8.0-magnitude earthquake happened in Sichuan, China. Over 5,000 students in primary and secondary schools perished in...
- 2020
CoroNation
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As the first city hit in the global pandemic, Wuhan, with a population of 11 million, was placed under an unprecedented lockdown. The film showcases...
- 2012
Chang'an Boulevard
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Shot in one-minute increments, Ai's video obsessively documents daily life along Chang'an Boulevard, a thriving road that bisects the capital city...
- 2010
Sanhua
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The documentary depicts a complete picture of a chain in the cat-trading industry. Since the end of 2009 when the government began soliciting expert...
- 2003
Eat, Drink and Be Merry
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In 2003, the infectious disease SARS quickly spread across China, causing widespread panic. At the peak of the hysteria accompanying the mysterious...
- 2022
Rohingya
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The Rohingya are an ethnic Muslim minority from Myanmar's Rakhine State who have suffered several decades of persecution by the Burmese government....
- 2011
Hormone
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- 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)...
- 2019
Ximei
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Twenty years after China’s scandalous “Black Blood Economy,” when a million Chinese citizens were infected with HIV and countless...
- 2012
KUN 13: Criticizing Ai Weiwei and Wu Haohao
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An uncomfortable encounter between the filmmaker and the famed artist.
- 2012
Discard the Old Path of Closed Doors and Rigidity and Reject Evil Attempts to Change the Party's Banner
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A Beijing taxi driver's special understanding of the Party's entreaty "We will not follow the old and rigid path" during the 18th Party Congress.
- 2010
One Recluse
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In June 2008, Yang Jia carried a knife, a hammer, a gas mask, pepper spray, gloves and Molotov cocktails to the Zhabei Public Security Branch Bureau...
- 2020
Cockroach
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In February 2019, the Hong Kong government proposed a bill that would have allowed the extradition of criminal suspects from Hong Kong to face trial...
- 2014
You Know What I Mean
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The Bazhou police wrongfully arrested seven people without any evidence around September 16, 2001, for their involvement in the murders of two...
- 2013
Wenchuan Rebar
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A short documentary about the making of "Straight" and "Forge" (2008-2012).
- 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...
- 2018
Shouting Out
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On May 12, 2008, the Wenchuan Earthquake occurred in Sichuan Province, with school buildings and student dormitories collapsing, which caused many...
- 2023
Clockwork Orange: The Prophecy
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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...