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Ai Weiwei: The Fake Case

You are cordially invited to see a new daring documentary about the Chinese dissident artist Ai Weiwei, premiering in New York’s IFC CENTER on May 16th!

  AI WEIWEI THE FAKE CASE

a documentary by Andreas Johnsen 

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US premiere May 16th at NYC’s IFC Center

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A LIFE LIVED IN SILENCE IS NOT A LIFE.

Named Best Documentary of 2014 by the Danish Film Critics’ Association

After 81 days of solitary detention world famous Chinese artist Ai Weiwei is put under house arrest. He suffers from sleeping disorder and memory loss, 18 cameras are monitoring his studio and home, police agents follow his every move, and heavy restrictions from the Kafkaesque Chinese authorities weigh him down.  Picking up where Alison Klayman’s Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry left off, AI WEIWEI THE FAKE CASE is more explicitly political, reflecting Ai’s battle against the gigantic lawsuit thrust upon him by the Chinese government in an effort to silence him.  Ai Weiwei is shaken, but during his year on probation he steadily finds new ways to provoke and challenge the mighty powers of the Chinese authorities in his fight for human rights and free expression.  The film also features the creation of S.A.C.R.E.D., a new work depicting Ai’s time in prison, which premiered during the Venice Biennale and is now on view at the Brooklyn Museum.

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“POWERFUL.  MOVING.  ABSORBING.  The world’s press turns off their cameras, but it is here that Andreas Johnsen’s film begins. FASCINATING.”- Mark Adams, Screen

“Picks up where Alison Klayman’s Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry left off, serving as not just an update, but an EVEN MORE GALVANIZING call for reform.  Ai’s voice carries louder than ever before.” - Peter Debruge, Variety

“INTIMATE.  TOPICAL.”- Neil Young, Hollywood Reporter

  Other Screenings

San Francisco, CA – Starts 5/23 at Landmark Opera Plaza

Berkeley, CA – Starts 5/23 at Landmark Shattuck

Santa Fe, NM – Starts 5/23 at Contemporary Arts Center

Los Angeles, CA – Starts 6/6 at Laemmle Royal

Portland, OR – Starts 6/6 at Northwest Film Forum

Chicago, IL – Starts 6/13 at Gene Siskel Film Center

Second time around, we wanna take you around some more culturally (more or less) fixated music doc's that you absolutely have to see. Some of you probably already have, but chances are that many of you haven't, so... Dig in!

Good Copy Bad Copy (2007) 59 min. Danish (Yet strongly focused on Sweden) music documentary about more than just copyrights, but mainly about copyrights. Featuring Girl Talk, Danger Mouse and more. Directed by Andreas Johnsen, Ralf Christensen and Henrik Moltke.

Lucky People Center Internation (1998). An absolutely amazingly odd film by Swedish superhero director Johan Soderberg, whom over the years also has done such films like: Surplus (2003), Tokyo Noise (2002) and the The Planet (2006). It's essentially a film about the rhythm of nationality, globalization and our planet. This is just a clip, the whole things is out there somewhere, but you already know how to find it. ;)

Refused Are Fucking Dead (2006). (Speaking of Sweden) A beautiful and poetic docu about a band, who's individual dreams and collective ideals collides in a single moment that changes their lives in more than several ways. And... Hey, what better time to catch up on this, since we just went thru the whole re-union shabam this year. Yes! They are back together. Whether that's good or bad..... doesn't change the fact that this film is a very powerful thing. The film is on youtube, yet without subtitles, so searching for it is a must.

Good Copy, Bad Copy