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Ai Weiwei
Producer, Director, Actor, Editor, Additional CreditsBorn August 28, 1957 (67 years)
Ai Weiwei is a Chinese contemporary artist and activist. Ai grew up in the far north-west of China, where he lived under harsh conditions due to his father's exile. As an activist, he has been openly critical of the Chinese Government's stance on democracy and human rights. He investigated government corruption and cover-ups, in particular the Sichuan schools corruption scandal following the collapse of schools in the 2008 Sichuan earthquake. In 2011, Ai Weiwei was arrested at Beijing Capital International Airport on 3 April, for allegedly economic crimes. He was detained for 81 days without charge. Ai Weiwei emerged as a vital instigator in Chinese cultural development, an architect of Chinese modernism, and one of the nation's most vocal political commentators. Ai Weiwei encapsulates political conviction and his personal poetry in his many sculptures, photographs and public works. In doing this, he makes use of Chinese art forms to display the Chinese political and social issues. After being allowed to leave China in 2015, he has lived in Berlin, Germany, and, since 2019, in Cambridge, UK, with his family, working and traveling internationally.
Filmography
| 2025 | Ai Weiwei's Turandot · as Self |
| 2024 | Il Codice Puccini · as Self |
| 2023 | Orange mécanique, les rouages de la violence · as Himself |
| 2023 | China's Concentration Camps (TV Series) · as Self - Interviewee |
| 2022 | Venice: Infinitely Avant-Garde · as Self |
| 2022 | Aux arts et cætera (TV Series) · as Self |
| 2021 | Ithaka · as Self |
| 2020 | Julian Assange: Revolution Now · as Self |
| 2020 | Made You Look: A True Story About Fake Art · as Self - Artist, Classmate Of Pei-Shen Qian |
| 2019 | Ai Weiwei: Yours Truly · as Self |
| 2018 | |
| 2018 | The Price of Everything · as Self |
| 2018 | Peston (TV Series) · as Self - Artist & Activist |
| 2018 | Amanpour and Company (TV Series) · as Self |
| 2017 | Human Flow · as Self |
| 2014 | |
| 2014 | Cartoonists: Footsoldiers of Democracy? · as Self - Chinese Contemporary Artist |
| 2012 | Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry · as Self - Artist |
| 2012 | CBS Mornings (TV Series) · as Self |
| 2011 | One Plus One (TV Series) · as Self - Guest |
| 2010 | Ai Weiwei: Sunflower Seeds · as Himself |
| 2009 | Disturbing the Peace · as Self |
| 2008 | Markus Lanz (TV Series) · as Self |
| 2008 | |
| 2007 | College Tour (TV Series) · as Self - Guest |
| 2003 | imagine... (TV Series) · as Self |
| 2002 | Through the Night With... (TV Series) · as Self |
| 2001 | art21 (TV Series) · as Self |
| 1999 | Volle Kanne (TV Series) · as Self |
| 1996 | The Daily Show (TV Series) · as Self |
| 1995 | Metropolis (TV Series) · as Self |
| 1995 | Kulturzeit (TV Series) · as Self |
| 1993 | A Native of Beijing in New York (TV Series) · as Ai Weiwei |
| 1992 | ARD-Morgenmagazin (TV Series) · as Self |
| 1991 | Movie Days (TV Series) · as Self - Interviewee |
| 1991 | DAS! (TV Series) · as Self |
| 1979 | CBS Sunday Morning With Jane Pauley (TV Series) · as Self |
| 1968 | 60 Minutes (TV Series) · as Self - Chinese Dissident (segment "enemy Of The State") |
| 1967 | ttt - titel, thesen, temperamente (TV Series) · as Self |