Director: Andreas Johnsen
Run Time: 91 min.
Call Number: N7349.A5 A4 2012
"In 1957, the year of Ai's birth, Maoist China began a purge of intellectuals. Ai's poet father was reduced to cleaning toilets. No such obscurity has befallen the subject of 'Ai Weiwei: The Fake Case,' whose large-scale conceptual works have made him a leading figure on the international art scene, albeit one who can no longer travel internationally. . . . Danish filmmaker Andreas Johnsen focuses on the year of probation after Ai's 81-day detention in spring 2011, widely considered government retaliation for his unrelenting criticism."
—Sheri Linden, Los Angeles Times
