Online Film Series: Ai Weiwei: Yours Truly
Available for one week!
Fri, Jul 10 - Fri, Jul 17, 2020
Location: Online Only
Available for one week!
Fri, Jul 10 - Fri, Jul 17, 2020
Location: Online Only
Join us as we extend the AGH Film Series from our screens to yours! From July 10 to 17, stream Ai Weiwei: Yours Truly, the award-winning documentary detailing the human rights concerns at the heart of prolific artist Ai Weiwei’s practice.
Human rights become profoundly personal when Ai Weiwei, China’s most famous artist, transforms Alcatraz Island prison into an astonishing expression of socially-engaged art focused on the plight of the unjustly incarcerated. At the core of the installation, called @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, director Cheryl Haines captures this monumental exhibition from conception to fruition, and as well visits current and former prisoners, including American whistleblower Chelsea Manning, to learn how these letters were vital to their survival.
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Cheryl Haines, USA, English, Mandarin, Arabic with English subtitles, 2019, 76 minutes
Lake Huron/Tobermory #1 2006
Robert A. Burley (Canadian b. 1957)
from the series Great Lakes, digital chromogenic print ed. 2/25, Gift of the artist, 2008
© Robert Burley, Courtesy of the Stephen Bulger Gallery