February 2012
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Alison Klayman: Director: Never Sorry At Berlin...
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Never Sorry: Review From Berlin 2012 →
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Berlin Film Fans: Stamping the Currency
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Berlin Film Festival: 2012 - "Never Sorry" Review
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Ai Weiwei: The Artist
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Ticket Buyers Lining Up: Berlin Film Festival
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Live from Berlin Film Festival: 2.12.2012
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Ai Weiwei: At Home in Absentia: Letter from China
Posted: By Evan Osnos: New Yorker Magazine - 01.27.2012
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January 2012
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At Sundance, Kickstarter Resembled a Movie Studio,...
One night last week there was a late-night party at Sundance — one of many — this one hosted by an outfit that had helped finance 10 percent of the festival’s slate, 17 movies in all, including four that were in competition.
Yancey Strickler, one of the founders ofKickstarter, made the rounds at the party, slapping filmmakers on the back and entertaining questions from journalists about some of...
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Berlin Film Festival: February 9-19th - See you...
BERLIN (Reuters) - Social upheaval and political awakening will form the focal themes of the 62nd Berlin film festival, director Dieter Kosslick said, as films depicting the Arab Spring and Japan’s crippled Fukushima nuclear facility take centre stage.
This year the festival will continue the debate about the position of the artist in society with the international premiere of a...
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Hyperallergic: Thank You.
Yesterday, “Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry” was award the US Documentary Special Jury Prize for Spirit of Defiance at the 2012 Sundance Film Festival. The in-depth documentary follows the life of one of the world’s most renowned and provocative artists over the last few years as he has been catapulted into news headlines.
http://hyperallergic.com/46271/sundance-ai-weiwei-alison-klayman/
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Special Sundance Jury Prize Documentary: Ai Wei...
WE WON!
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Never Sorry - Wired Magazine →
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Never Sorry - Wired Magazine
Alison Klayman’s entertaining, compelling and thought-provoking film, which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival this week, follows the Beijing-based architect, conceptual artist and provocateur as he does battle with Chinese authorities, surviving around-the-clock stakeouts, a beating by police, public denouncement and, eventually, an 81-day prison stint.
What is Ai’s crime? According...
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Juxtapose Magazine: Thank you.
This intimate and personal documentary reveals the man behind the icon that is Ai Weiwei. The immensely influential Chinese artist is described as the “a god of love”, “the Beijing Andy Warhol” and as “a brand for liberal thinking and individualism” and Alison Klayman investigates the person that lies underneath these grand titles. Klayman reveals the personal...
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Forever Bicycles
Forever bicycles is included in Ai Weiwei’s new exhibit in Taiwan. It’s an incredible, arching layer of a thousand bikes and reflects’s Ai’s perception of the rapid pace of China’s social change.
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What Sundance veterans really know is that dollar-for-dollar, documentaries are the festival’s best bets. Four of the best this year benefit from exceptional access to some personalities:
‘Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry’ .
A look at the remarkable life and philosophy, observed over three years, of the man called “the most powerful artist in the world” because of how he transitioned from...
Sundance Red Carpet:
Director: Editor: Jen Fineran Director: Alison Klayman Composer: Ilan Isakov
Ai Weiwei: The Evolution of a Dissident →
The filmmaker Alison Klayman presents an exclusive look at the Chinese dissident artist Ai Weiwei and his struggle for freedom of expression.
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World Premiere: Sold Out!