Ai Weiwei’s Human Flow is a major work, but what does the defense of immigrants entail? - World Socialist Web Site
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Ai Weiwei’s Human Flow is a major work, but what does the defense of immigrants entail?
By Eric London
15 November 2017
In Human Flow, Ai Weiwei’s remarkable documentary on mass immigration, the Chinese expatriate artist and director includes a clip from an interview with Greek Migration Minister Yiannis Mouzalas, a member of that country’s ruling Coalition of the Radical Left (SYRIZA).
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Human Flow review – Ai Weiwei’s urgent look at the scale of the refugee crisis | Film | The Guardian
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The international co-productions of the mid-20th century often boasted myriad shooting locations in far-flung places. Who would have guessed the Chinese artist Ai Weiwei would pick up where moguls such as Sam Spiegel left off.
Ai’s new film, Human Flow, while certainly epic in scope, is not exactly meant as entertainment. This is an urgent, deep soak in the current refugee crisis. There has been no dearth of documentaries about this topic, but this one comes closest to understanding the totality of the issue.
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Review: Ai Weiwei’s ‘Human Flow’ Tracks the Global Migrant Crisis - The New York Times
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There are moments in “Human Flow,” a bracing, often strangely beautiful movie by the artist Ai Weiwei, when it can be hard to see the individuals who make up the roiling, surging rivers onscreen. This difficulty in isolating specific people — really seeing them as sovereign beings rather than as an undifferentiated mass — is crucial to the meaning of the documentary, which charts the global refugee and migrant crisis. Shot over the course of one year in 23 countries, the movie tracks the here and there of people whose relentless ebbing and flowing make startlingly visible what news headlines repeatedly suggest: that ours is an age of ceaseless churn with no calm in sight.
