Ai Weiwei doc receives rare standing ovation at Sundance

By Shanghaiist on Jan 25, 2012

By Cal Widdall

Ai Never Sorry.jpg A new documentary following the Chinese artist/activist Ai Weiwei was met with rapturous applause at its Sundance Film Festival screening on Sunday. The L.A. Times reports:

"Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry" premiered at the Sundance Film Festival's Library Center Theatre and inspired a rare standing ovation and a general activist fervor at the Utah film gathering. Members of the audience praised the director and expressed a willingness to get involved as they noisily exited the theater.

In the film, Alison Klayman (whose Facebook profile was temporarily disabled in November) utilizes an unprecedented amount of access to the 54-year-old to provide a detailed insight into the three years between his rise to prominence in 2008 and his widely publicised detainment in April 2011.

The trailer for the film can be seen below:


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  • LSD2012
    I think the documentary "Invisible War" by Kirby Dick investigating the rape of 19,000 US female and male soldiers was met with more "rapturous applause" at Sundance. But of course foreigner misery of Ai Weiwei worth more American attention.
  • Great article! :)
  • Ai Weiwei is a morbidly obese Chinese artist. He has checked himself
    into a residential weight loss facility in Hollywood, California.
  • erm, he had 8 months of 'residential weight loss' at a Beijing facility not so long ago, under 24h extremely close supervision, even his poo was checked and verified. so he promptly went back to his favoruite dumpling restaurant fter the cure. cannot blame him...
  • Ivan
    Must be a real good spambot comment - you didn't see it for what it is.
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