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
  • 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
  • 2015
    Fukushima Art Project

    Fukushima Art Project

    Fukushima Art Project

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    In August 2014, Ai Weiwei was invited as one of the participating artists for the Fukushima Nuclear Zone by the Japanese art coalition Chim↑Pom,...

    Fukushima Art Project
  • 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
  • 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
  • 2009
    冯正虎回家

    冯正虎回家

    冯正虎回家

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    冯正虎回家
  • 2013
    Ping'an Yueqing

    Ping'an Yueqing

    Ping'an Yueqing

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    Ping’an yueqing investigates the 2010 death of Qian Yunhui, a village leader from Yueqing in the eastern province of Zhejiang, who died under...

    Ping'an Yueqing
  • 2017
    江天勇律师

    江天勇律师

    江天勇律师

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    江天勇律师
  • 2010
    Jingmei Wang

    Jingmei Wang

    Jingmei Wang

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    Jingmei Wang
  • 2016
    Heaven and Earth

    Heaven and Earth

    Heaven and Earth

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    A Henan opera based on the complete recording of a lawsuit filed against the Beijing Local Taxation Bureau by Ai Weiwei's Fake Cultural Development...

    Heaven and Earth
  • 2012
    The Crab House

    The Crab House

    The Crab House

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    Early in 2008, the district government of Jiading, Shanghai invited Ai Weiwei to build a studio in Malu Township, as a part of the local government's...

    The Crab House
  • 2013
    Stay Home

    Stay Home

    Stay Home

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    Liu Ximei was born in 1985 in Xincai County, Zhumadian City in Henan Province. Being born in violation of the one child policy, she was given up to...

    Stay Home
  • 2014
    The Sand Storm

    The Sand Storm

    The Sand Storm

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    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...

    The Sand Storm
  • 2012
    Remembrance

    Remembrance

    Remembrance

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    On April 24, 2010 at 00:51, Ai Weiwei (@aiww)
started a Twitter campaign to commemorate
students who perished in the earthquake...

    Remembrance
  • 2014
    Play of the Play

    Play of the Play

    Play of the Play

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    Ai Weiwei Studio presents the process of creating a Yu opera based on the first trial over Ai's fake tax case.

    Play of the Play
  • 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
  • 2010
    A Beautiful Life

    A Beautiful Life

    A Beautiful Life

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    The Shanghai authorities rejected Feng Zhenghu, originated from Wenzhou, Jiejiang, China, from returning to the country for a total of eight times in...

    A Beautiful Life
  • 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
  • 2018
    Why Are We Creative?

    Why Are We Creative?

    Why Are We Creative?

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    A 30 years odyssey: the world's most intriguing artists and thinkers from the fields of visual art, music, filmmaking, acting, literature,...

    Why Are We Creative?