Ai Weiwei: Yours Truly (2019)

1h 16m
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April 14, 2019
Release Date

Ai Weiwei: Yours Truly (2019)

1h 16m
Running Time

April 14, 2019
Release Date

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Ai Weiwei, famous for his large-scale installation work and his dogged social justice advocacy, created a career-defining work in 2015 with @Large, mounted at Alcatraz, the emblematic site associated with egregious incarceration conditions and radical Native American protest. At the core of @Large were portraits of prisoners of conscience coupled with the opportunity to write letters of solidarity to the imprisoned. In her impassioned and powerful film, exhibition curator Cheryl Haines visits several current and former prisoners, including American whistleblower Chelsea Manning, and learns how these letters were vital to their survival. “The misconception of totalitarianism is that freedom can be imprisoned. This is not the case. When you constrain freedom, freedom will take flight and land on a windowsill.” — Ai Weiwei

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Release Date
April 14, 2019

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Running Time
1h 16m

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$550,000

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Ai Weiwei: Yours Truly is a 2019 American documentary film about the Chinese artist and activist Ai Weiwei, and his art exhibition at Alcatraz, a former prison on an island near San Francisco, California, USA.

The documentary covers the creation of the exhibition @Large:Ai Weiwei on Alcatraz, a 2014 project that was shown at Alcatraz, with multiple exhibits, including Trace, which featured political prisoners around the world as lego portraits. At this time, Ai Weiwei still had his passport withheld by the Chinese government, so foreign travel was not possible for him and he had to create the exhibition remotely. The exhibition came about through contact with the San Francisco curator and gallerist Cheryl Haines.The film considers human rights. Interviews with Ai Weiwei and his mother demonstrate the psychological effect of the family's exile in the 1950s to a labor camp in northeast China. The exhibition had two main parts. "Trace" was a room with portraits on the floor of 176 people that had imprisoned for their beliefs, created in bright colors using Lego bricks. The second room, "Yours Truly", enabled visitors to write postcards to some of the imprisoned people, which were later sent by mail to the prisoners where this was possible. The film includes interviews with Chelsea Manning, a former United States Army intelligence analyst who leaked military and diplomatic documents in 2010, originally sentenced to 35 years imprisonment by the US government, and John Kiriakou, a former US CIA agent who revealed the CIA's use of torture, especially waterboarding, and imprisoned by the US government during 2013–15 at the time of the exhibition.

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