Ai Weiwei Movies

  • 2012
    Beijing: The Third Ring

    Beijing: The Third Ring

    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...

    Beijing: The Third Ring
  • 2022
    Eric Ravilious: Drawn to War

    Eric Ravilious: Drawn to War

    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...

    Eric Ravilious: Drawn to War
  • 2012
    4851

    4851

    4851

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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...

    4851
  • 2020
    CoroNation

    CoroNation

    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...

    CoroNation
  • 2012
    Chang'an Boulevard

    Chang'an Boulevard

    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...

    Chang'an Boulevard
  • 2010
    Sanhua

    Sanhua

    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...

    Sanhua
  • 2003
    Eat, Drink and Be Merry

    Eat, Drink and Be Merry

    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...

    Eat, Drink and Be Merry
  • 2022
    Rohingya

    Rohingya

    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....

    Rohingya
  • 2011
    Hormone

    Hormone

    Hormone

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    Hormone
  • 2012
    So Sorry

    So Sorry

    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)...

    So Sorry
  • 2019
    Ximei

    Ximei

    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...

    Ximei
  • 2012
    KUN 13: Criticizing Ai Weiwei and Wu Haohao

    KUN 13: Criticizing Ai Weiwei and Wu Haohao

    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
    Discard the Old Path of Closed Doors and Rigidity and Reject Evil Attempts to Change the Party's Banner

    Discard the Old Path of Closed Doors and Rigidity and Reject Evil Attempts to Change the Party's Banner

    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.

    Discard the Old Path of Closed Doors and Rigidity and Reject Evil Attempts to Change the Party's Banner
  • 2010
    One Recluse

    One Recluse

    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...

    One Recluse
  • 2020
    Cockroach

    Cockroach

    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...

    Cockroach
  • 2014
    You Know What I Mean

    You Know What I Mean

    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...

    You Know What I Mean
  • 2013
    Wenchuan Rebar

    Wenchuan Rebar

    Wenchuan Rebar

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    A short documentary about the making of "Straight" and "Forge" (2008-2012).

    Wenchuan Rebar
  • 2025
    Ai Weiwei's Turandot

    Ai Weiwei's Turandot

    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...

    Ai Weiwei's Turandot
  • 2018
    Shouting Out

    Shouting Out

    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...

    Shouting Out
  • 2023
    Clockwork Orange: The Prophecy

    Clockwork Orange: The Prophecy

    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...

    Clockwork Orange: The Prophecy