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Filmmaker forges intimate portrait of artist-activist Ai Weiwei


URL: http://www.jewishjournal.com/articles/item/filmmaker_forges_intimate_portrait_of_artist-activist_ai_weiwei_20120801

In 2010, Alison Klayman sat in a car in Chengdu, China, with her camera rolling as the internationally renowned conceptual artist and dissident Ai Weiwei scuffled with police, who were pushing and pulling at him and his entourage. The melee had erupted as Ai was attempting to file a lawsuit against the policeman who had beaten him so severely a year earlier that he had suffered a life-threatening cranial hemorrhage, requiring surgery to remove the blood from his brain.

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