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5 - Ai Wei Wei: never sorry

You'd think that those folks in charge of handling dissidents and ​artists would learn early on that tactics meant to silence actually just amplify. Ai Wei Wei for example has reached a height as an international art figure not just on his work, but on what his work is opposed by. His complaints (even after being jailed for a couple of months) are available in English on https://twitter.com/aiwwenglish/ 

Here, ​American Alison Klayman, a first-time filmmaker living in China decided to follow Ai on film. It is a tale as much about his art as his way of being handled by the National government.​

​First-time American filmmaker Alison Klayman decided to follow Ai.