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Human Flow

April 2018

  • Orban Wallace’s Another News Story examines the media scrum around the European migrant crisis.

    Making drama out of the refugee crisis

    Films about Europe’s migrant crisis run the risk of being artful and exploitative. Now directors are seeking to redress the balance

February 2018

  • Ai Weiwei

    The refugee crisis isn’t about refugees. It’s about us

    Ai Weiwei
    I was a child refugee. I know how it feels to live in a camp, robbed of my humanity, says the artist and activist Ai Weiwei

December 2017

  • ai weiwei with a young man wrapped in blankets in human flow

    Human Flow review – arbitrary borders, ultimate responsibility

    Ai Weiwei’s film about the world migration crisis moves from the universal to the personal to make an emphatic point
  • "Human Flow" Documentary - 2017<br>No Merchandising. Editorial Use Only. No Book Cover Usage Mandatory Credit: Photo by AC Films/Kobal/REX/Shutterstock (9170279h) Human Flow (2017) "Human Flow" Documentary - 2017

    Peter Bradshaw's film of the week
    Human Flow review – Ai Weiwei surveys shocking plight of migrants on the move

    This documentary by the Chinese conceptual artist offers no easy answers, revealing instead a deeply affecting empathy for those caught up in a global crisis
  • "Human Flow" Documentary - 2017<br>No Merchandising. Editorial Use Only. No Book Cover Usage Mandatory Credit: Photo by AC Films/Kobal/REX/Shutterstock (9170279b) Human Flow (2017) "Human Flow" Documentary - 2017

    ‘They’re usually either enemies or victims’: the refugee crisis on screen

    It’s one of the biggest challenges facing humanity today. But film-makers from Michael Haneke to Ai Weiwei have struggled to represent this highly sensitive issue

October 2017

  • Good Fences - Ai Weiwei

    Ai Weiwei launches controversial public art project focused on immigration

    The artist has assembled 300 installations around New York City, based on fences and borders, to showcase attempts to create ‘hatred between people’

September 2017

  • Ai Weiwei … ‘We all have a short life. We have only a moment to speak out.’

    The G2 interview
    Ai Weiwei: ‘Without the prison, the beatings, what would I be?'

    His battles with the Chinese state made him an artist. Now a rootless exile who rarely leaves his studio in Berlin, he explains why his new documentary about the global plight of migrants will haunt him for the rest of his life

August 2017

  • Human Flow by Ai Weiwei.

    Human Flow review – Ai Weiwei's urgent look at the scale of the refugee crisis

    Gorgeous shots in Greece, Calais and elsewhere, many filmed from drones, create a visual tone poem that proves both epic and highly human

July 2017

  • Suburbicon film still

    George Clooney, Jennifer Lawrence and Matt Damon jostle for Oscar advantage in Venice line-up

    Damon stars in two of the Lido’s big films, Downsizing and Suburbicon, while Lawrence steps into horror movie territory with Darren Aronofsky’s Mother!

October 2015

  • Visitors to the 2015 Frankfurt book fair.

    Phil Collins and Ai Weiwei make waves at Frankfurt book fair

    Memoirs by the musician and the artist were among the forthcoming books causing excitement at the industry’s international trade event
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