Writer, director, and cinematographer Maxim Derevianko’s first full-length documentary is a challenging project behind-the scenes of 'Ai Weiwei's Turandot'.

In the spring, “Perspectives: Ai Weiwei” opened at the Arthur M ... Ai lives well enough, even under house arrest, but there’s little about him that’s extravagant or arty.

Courtesy of Ai Weiwei Studio After learning his father ... ‘Am I afraid to be arrested?’ And the answer was no,” he says. In the fall of 2000 Ai rented a warehouse space in Shanghai for ...

Several months into the trial, the prosecution has failed to present evidence for its charges of "high treason" that served ...

"Ai Weiwei's Turandot" is co-produced by Marta ... his long-standing commitment to freedom of expression. After his 2011 arrest and imprisonment, Ai left China in 2015 and now lives and works ...

In the documentary, ‘Ai Weiwei’s Turandot’, screening at Hot Docs 2025, revolutionary artist Ai Weiwei takes his first steps ...

“Arrests were arbitrary and every time the ... A Columbia professor shared an Instagram story by Chinese dissident artist Ai Weiwei that showed Elon Musk’s “X” symbol rotating and morphing ...