Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry

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Movie
German title Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry
Original title Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry
Ai Weiwei.jpg
Country of production United States
original language English , Mandarin
Publishing year 2011
length 91 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
Rod
Director Alison Klayman
script Alison Klayman
occupation

Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry (Chinese:艾未未:道歉你妹, Ai Weiwei: Daoqian nǐ mèi; official title in Taiwan艾未未:草泥馬, Ai Weiwei: Cǎo ní mǎ) is a documentary of the American filmmaker Alison Klayman about the Chinese artist and activist Ai Weiwei .

action

Shortly after his release from Chinese captivity in the spring of 2011, Ai meets Klayman, and from that point on the director follows the great artist. He is accompanied in setting up his exhibition in the Haus der Kunst in Munich and in his 100 million ceramic porcelain exhibition in the Tate Modern , the production and the beginning of the commissioned work Sunflower Seeds is also illuminated. Among other things, you can see how he is harassed by the police in Chengdu , how his studio is destroyed and how he is finally arrested at the airport. After his release, he will be banned from giving interviews related to his prison term for one year. He visits his son, whom he acquired out of an illegitimate relationship and who exposed him to the charge of bigamy , the main reason given by the authorities being tax evasion. For the film were u. a. interviewed his brother and mother about his first gallery owner in New York and about his wife.

background

Klayman first met Ai in Beijing in December 2008 while she was living in China producing TV and radio features. She worked on a short film for her show " New York Photographs 1983-1993 " at the Beijing " Three Shadows Photography Art Center ".

Awards

Klayman received a Special Jury Award at the 2012 Sundance Film Festival for Never Sorry. The film also opened the Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival 2012 in Toronto .

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