Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry
- Ying Gao
- Ai Weiwei
- Gu Changwei
- Chen Danqing
Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry ( in Chinese艾 未 未:道歉 你 妹; official title in Taiwan艾 未 未:草泥 马) is a documentary filmmaker Alison Klayman of the U.S. about the Chinese artist and activist Ai Weiwei.
Action
Shortly after his release from captivity in Chinese spring of 2011 meets Ai on Klayman and from that point follows the director to the great artist. He is helped to build his exhibition at the Haus der Kunst in Munich and at its 100 million -ceramic porcelain exhibition at Tate Modern. Among other things, you also get to see how he is harassed by the police in Chengdu, his studio is destroyed and how it is eventually arrested at the airport. For the film were, inter alia, his brother and his mother about his first gallery in New York interviewed about his wife.
Background
Klayman Ai met for the first time in December 2008 in Beijing, while living in China and produced television and radio features. She worked on a short film for their show " New York Pothographs 1983-1993 " in Beijing "Three Shadows Photography Art Centre ".
Awards
Klayman received a Special Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival 2012 for Never Sorry. The film also opened the Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival 2012 in Toronto.