BBC：艾未未专题纪录片（Ai Weiwei, Without Fear or Favor）

BBC 艾未未 Ai Weiwei 纪录片 葵花籽 陶瓷 景德镇

[@kookie2223]

i really appreciate Ai Wei Wei , not only as a artist but also as a social activist His loyalty to his own art work and himself makes him such an unique person . He also has strong determination to change China into a better country ,that's why he is the greatest artist of our generation

[@mariabumby]

As much criticism as he gets, his works personally MOVE me. (John Green at vlogbrothers did a reaction to the ai weiwei exhibition about the earthquake) and i never felt so haunted by a thing/art etc. I'm really grateful for the kind of work that he does.

[@zheyangke9830]

Wow, this is astonishing. Absolutely worth to watch. " It’s only when Art connects to ordinary feelings and ordinary common sense that It become more powerful." from Ai weiwei, A true fearless artist for his people. I'm proud of him. The way he talks make me want to follow him.

[@KateLiuLaoshi]

2020年再看这个纪录片，又有不一样的感受了

[@jingtan9428]

不管媒体报道是否正确，这是只是一个观点，是否属实，知者心知肚明就好，但凭他的敢作敢为、为艺术、为人权，艾未未是值得尊敬的艺术家，无可否认。

[@docotortom]

2024年再看，又有许多不一样的感受。致敬

[@nadiyadanylovska4138]

It's really good. Absolutely accurate reflection of historical events on artist's life. And Ai Weiwei is such a great personality. Perfect and brave for his place and time.

[@helperrrr]

我觉得艾未未是个有良知的人,很珍贵!我们都是艾未未!

[@user-hr4zi9sc7q]

不我在墙内 没他的勇气。也没他的才能。我能做的就是不给别有用心的政府做背书

[@korzeniek78]

Ladies and gentlemen, we are witnessing a true genius here. We are lucky to live in his time.

[@hughgaynor-aldrich6735]

A common man who stands up ,face uncovered, and challenges those who would suppress thought and deeds. Your art, heart and thoughts lead us all, around the world !

[@rutilopata8294]

I’m speechless, breathless.... what a unique life, inspiring to the core, amazing and deep movie, thank you from the bottom of my heart to the artist and each person who had a hand in bringing this story to life for all to know and get to love and appreciate💐✨🦋🌺🌸🙏🏻

[@carmiauz]

I nearly lost my faith, believing in heros hanging around on planet earth. But with every little thing, I ´m reading, watching and hearing about Ai Wei Wei, my hope´s growing and my faith is coming back. We need more heroes like him, and than, perhaps, the human race won´t be already losted.

[@citytide]

艾未未是一个艺术家。看完此片后，我更确认了这一点。我喜欢他的艺术灵感，他的执著，他的勇敢。 一个勇敢的艺术家。

[@Lynne00000]

1億顆陶瓷葵花子~好棒的創作 艾未未是個令人敬佩的藝術家!!!

[@cocoluluye4530]

As a Chinese, glad some many of you had watched it . i feel it is so important that the world can know the real china. so many people are suffering from a lot of things. yes we have the world largest population. but we don't have real freedom or human right compared to other countries. we feel so shameful about our party, our gov. but actually, no one could impact it. but we are trying everything we could. hopefully, in some near future, we could use facebook, twitter, ig, snapchat or other social media as other people in the world. that is the goal of our generation. our generation should fight for. we need more rights

[@aryanputra2732]

as he says, lets wait the day china collapses completely, even the geopolitical map will shrink drastically, and then perhaps the terrorist communist party will realise on what they did was creating a mere horror

[@jackpaul51]

Let's not talk about Ai WeiWei for the time being. I don't know why but I feel like the western democracy won't work in China, at least not at the moment. A strong administration is necessary to keep the people together. Without the tight regulation, I don't really think China would grow so fast. Look at Philippines, India or any other Latino and South-Asian countries except Singapore (which is basically built by Britain). In fact, in the development of most countries, being regulated under a dictatorship is an important phase which they can't be skipped. Without "the Great Fire Wall of China", which provides an isolated internet environment, China won't have companies like Tencent , Alibaba or Baidu (they could've got beaten by their American counterparts very easily) which are now world-leading high-tech companies and have contributed a lot to the Chinese economy. These huge companies have lifted millions out of poverty. I reckon the so-called democracy and arts are still too pricey to an average Chinese (if you look at the GDP per capita, even in cities like Beijing or Shanghai, it is not comparable with any developed Western economies. Chinese are poorer than people in most of their neighbour countries, yet China has more influence on the world economy than any of its neighbours). I mean, there are many problems in China, especially in the humanity and culture side. But I think it is a problem in economy, if you look at the education in China, it never teaches the Chinese students to live their own life, and it is because China doesn't have that much educational resource, and it doesn't provide a well-rounded welfare system, which makes the majority of Chinese kids don't have the courage to live up their dreams. After all, China is a low-income developing country, you don't expect China to become a developed country overnight. BTW, I have lived in Australia for 5 years now (I saw you uploaded lots of vid about Adelaide, so I assume you live here too). I maybe like the fresh air and the polite people, but I have never felt like I get more freedom over here than I did in China (prob b/c I studied a CS major, and I am not an artist). Instead, I have seen plenty of side-effects that come with the western democracy. If you look at the US election, you know the voters are strongly influenced by the media, and the media is controlled by the political parties. Basically what you read on the news could well be just a story made up by the political parties. It means you maybe not voting for what you think you are voting for. So here comes to my conclusion: there is no such thing as "complete democracy" for ordinary folks. Two parties may be better because they can kind of balance off the power, but I don't think it really helps to create a democratic society more than a growing economy does (if you compare Macau and Hongkong, it becomes very obvious). One thing I agree with you tho, this generation needs to be better than the elder one. Also, I am planning on going back to China coz I think the project of XiongAn New Area is very exciting. I think if we build a stronger economy and make the average Chinese income doubled in the next few years, so everyone earns more regardless of profession, gender, and other stuff, a lot of problems will just go away naturally. (BTW, every living man is suffering from a lot of things, not just the Chinese. You are in Australia, so you know it. Australia may be better in something, but it may be worse in some other things, if you think Australia is better than China overall, well that's because it is a developed country and ppl here earns an average nearly 10 times what an average Chinese earns)

[@user-tl4zn4xl8w]

你想多了，七月份green vpn要被停了，网络管制更加严厉！

[@GlueStikkk]

there's no word worthy enough to describe this man's talent..

[@daavq]

Those sunflower seeds are truly amazing. I had no idea how much work went into them. They sound wonderful when they walk on them, and probably feel good in the hand.

[@higgsmerino3925]

Then name the village and spread the credit...he's just a CEO.

[@Emmaforever1201]

Ai wei wei, definitely the leader of contemporary artist~ inspiring and breath taking creativity~

[@easilydistracted5192]

AH thank you so much for providing me with these insights. Writing a term paper on Dropping a Han Dynasty Urn and some of the perspectives in here I couldnt find in any scholarly literature! Not to mention it's all quotable because Ai said it himself! Ha! I'm in heaven!

[@violentblue7]

god bless weiwei! freedom and all the love for him!!!

[@paymentseal]

今天剛認識艾老師。 是位藝術家， 也是一條好漢。

[@user-xp5yt4pt1z]

喜欢他的作品，很有意思。艺术作品就是乐趣的体现。他之所以成为“政治家”或者说“政治意见艺术家”，我想是因为和他儿时的经历有着绝对必然的关系。我想，每个华人都希望共产党趁早结束他的统治。。。可能要很多年的时间，但是如果不的话，中国就永远也好不了。

[@ranli3741]

He said he had no feeling about China, but sorry, the spirit of ur art works which impressed foreigners mostly from China, cannot deny something will always in your blood and raise u up.

[@user-sp4iw8dn3l]

+connie Dasta I dun think he meant he has no feelings when he said that, he definitely 'feel' but not in a way that would make him become attached emotionally to the land of China. Can you Imagine growing up somewhere that continuously traumatize you and makes you feel horrible about yourself, your value , then seeing opportunities to go somewhere else where everything in life could turn out to be completely opposite? No, none of us can comprehend, cuz we never went thru what he has experienced. (To me its kinda like a relationship ppl have with a abusive father, you feel for him, but you rly can't be that attached to him cuz theres really not much of positive emotions has came out of the time he spent with him)

[@Ian12968064]

great documentary and Mr Ai's art is absolute masterpiece. I am simply moved by the massive seeds.

[@Jimmy-es8bc]

greatest artist of our generation

[@cuiucin]

我比较喜欢他父亲的《我爱这土地》 Id like to say that his father's poem are affectionate and impressive, also one was always keeping in my memo, that said: Why are the tears always in my eyes? That's because I love the land so much.

[@shellyohaas7891]

Elegant and stunning in perspective and manifestation of his vision.

[@AlisonMirin]

According to my friend, the subtitles are not accurate. 3:25 what the girl said was "you are not that tall", not "you are not that special" thus her comment "you are quite ordinary" is about his height. 26:54 this documentary added "the government controls the press" in the subtitle. That is not what that guy said in the interview. So far those are the mistakes she pointed out.

[@brief_illusions]

thank you

[@jonelee8680]

听到“念”当中的名字时，眼泪不自觉流下来了。

[@guanchuliu4039]

看到最后瓜子儿的展览我的左眼居然落了一滴眼泪

[@kenho6378]

湿了

[@nurakyildiz4861]

I am going have my MA interview in fine art soon and I am going to mention this!! He is amazing and I loved this sunflower installation work ❤️❤️❤️👏👏

[@anaovejero103]

just loooovvvveeeee his work!!!!

[@danielmontenegro3084]

So glad to have watched this. Inspired.

[@chichengxiao]

我妈说，老毛死的时候，她和两个同学在打牌（争上游），然后她爸突然冲进来说，赶紧收起来，一会儿来人了，然后拉他们出去哭……

[@thecrippledances]

A tear almost left my eyes in the near end of the film...

[@user-gd2se9pr5r]

我见过艾未未，2008年，北京市朝阳区望京，他和他太太，我也住在望京。

[@yankitchong]

Love from Hong Kong

[@Avoavocado]

My new fav contemporary artist!

[@leciel95]

老艾的口音真纯~喜欢.

[@CriticalWalkman]

This man is no artist, he's a fucking hero.

[@novasponge]

The process of making art itself is art

[@yfs880805]

支持艾未未

[@appleseater2667]

I think China being such a big country, it is very hard to manage, I understand the government's position after the earthquake, they are trying to keep the people calm and not make a mess, because the more mess there are the less people they can save… I think Ai weiwei is a great artist but there are other way of changing the face of China instead of always criticizing its wrong… China has beautiful things too. I love my birth country and Im happy to see it getting better days and days(people gets out of poverty and etc.) make peace not war:))

[@appleseater2667]

nice, pretty convinced by your comment, I just dont like how people would label any non-western country as totalitarian, enable to govern and totally horrible, i would stand up for any country that is wrongly accused, not just PRC haha. strong and rigid socialist government has these disadvantage on human right, but as u said, it can also develop a strong econ and relatively stable and peaceful country. I think with time and a better economy things would definitely get better in china, in terms of living condition, again as you said china's growth have brought million of people out of poverty and of course has brought out this newly emerged Chinese middle class(cough*cough*another big topic). the point is not to ignore the merits that the current government deserve but also to point out all these problems of corruption and blabla. nothing will get better if we stay silent, ai wei wei is definitely a one of my all time heroes, he advocated through peaceful means what should be said about china. contemporary China is complex and its development needs the participation and cooperation of many people, not only the mainland citizen, but also the government, international organization, chinese overseas, and citizens of many countries

[@ThisisRubbishlo]

One of the greatest living artists. Persecuted because his work is taken as an attack on the system, corruption & government. Honesty is a great FUCK YOU.

[@bouskela]

Ai Weiwei's story is fascinating !! I was privileged to see Ai Weiwei's "According to What?" exposition at Hirshhorn Museum in Washington, DC. I highly recommend seeing it.

[@reallinda2011]

I love Ai Weiwei

[@whitesnowable]

I REALLY SUPPORT HIM , FOR HIS BRAVERY

[@glhf5922]

it is all about the perspective you take....nothing else

[@ThomasYao]

值得观看与了解

[@user-dh7st7tx6k]

he just said something we all wanna say

[@tasselchen]

Bird nest was not designed by Aiweiwei, he was a consultant.

[@leungclj]

在一個腐朽的社會裡, 藝術-如果它是真實的必也會反映出腐朽,除非它背棄其作為社會的功能,則藝術必展現出可改變的世界,並幫助其改變. -Ernst Fischer

[@user-by8rh4pp8n]

איזה רעיונות אמנותיים יש לגאון הזה. יופי חי

[@oo1991911]

最后那个瓜子作品我很喜欢

[@kz222]

i really dont understand why there are negative comments about this ! this is inspirational and hope giving ! this is about a men standing up for human rights and hes not saying fuck u china hes saing change is needed and hes not an artist because hes revolutionary he's revolutionary because hes an artist and hes an artist because he wants to and he has talent to do so, who are you to take away that right?

[@MixMeAdrink]

Great man.

[@Stanqqq]

Ai Weiwei with love from Russia

[@bilibilidouga]

Aiweiwei -- a real patriot.

[@TristansVid]

YOU'RE A HERO AI WEI WEI!

[@Ludendoiff]

我现在终于理解艾未未了

[@Mrposton101]

this is truely inspiring to me I love this guy :)

[@TonVanis]

You said: " let other countries and other organizations to interfere the Chinese democracy process" But when....the process will end....? and the Chinese as a country can be free. Ai WeiWei a man had such enormous status internationally leading the fight for the right and justed for Chinese as citizen of this world I'm honor, and proud to be a human being.

[@mitraharding9775]

what is most extraordinary about him, more often than not, is unfortunately the enormity of his projects in terms of the number of people engaged to carry it out his works and the amount of money needed to materialize them. In many ways his works are of the same type, in terms of publicity, media attention and ambition same as Christo's. It would be equally interesting for him to exhibit the list of people collaborating in his project, where and how they were produced and how much money was involved in doing so. This is all the more interesting in so far as conceptual art is concerned, that his activism in human rights will translate into what Chinese cheap labour and thereof economic power represent in our world today. After all, the accumulation of objects added to this world, no thanks to the Chinese market, are by far the most threatening not only to the whole idea of art and aesthetics, but also to the environment.

[@WolvesinFrance]

/like for like Jes x act lie/

[@spenonjen]

Interesting--definitely want to know more about this! --however I'm deaf and I want to turn the english subtitles on instead of having the english transcribed. How can I put the english subtitles on instead Chinese simplified Han? :/

[@AMonteverdi]

amazing...

[@qianglin4260]

艾未未的确没设计鸟巢，但他是设计者请来的顾问，他自己说最后变成鸟巢与他关系很大。全国人民都关心汶川，艾未未其实是在维持一种公平，正义，他和他爹艾青一样普世价值观很重吧。

[@overthemoutain1]

在这件事情上，我对BBC心存感激，这是在外围给了艾未未支持。当然，这首先是因为中共太让人失望了。

[@jiandu6229]

艾未未逐渐的开始喜欢让世界看到他·而不是让更多的国人看到他~尽管这也很难~

[@3wetpaint]

deeply inspiring

[@TsAugk]

so good

[@kunseok]

ai wei wei kinda reminds me of action bronson

[@Jingheng100]

那個傳統磁器但是圖上現代色彩的作品是值得思考一下的。

[@Lua1990___]

A hero

[@kevinnku]

我想最后英国人对葵花籽的感情是真实表达，起码这是一个尊重艺术，尊重自由的国家-----在英学生留

[@MsNicole8888]

Ai wei wei -----------------> THE MAN !!!!

[@user-ys7nh8ff3o]

Ai Weiwei himself is a might. 艾未未本身就是强权。

[@themcqueenie]

i support ai wei wei

[@ThirdEye105]

All his art and activism is fine, but I am left wondering how much the artisans who painstakingly painted the sunflower seeds were paid for their laborious work, that would lend some perspective to his art?

[@phoenix545970]

我觉得你说得挺好，民主也许没什么不好，但是现在我看不出有什么好。而这youtube搞民主的人，和比如美国之音那群人，大多都睁着眼说瞎话，对中国全盘否定。这样外国闹得凶，国内的百姓反倒反感。我认识那几百号人，坚持支持民主的就一个。大多数人都是希望保持现状。慢慢自身改良。你说的要慢的我非常支持。要搞民主就是要修宪，民主国家修宪重大决案，我在这个国家需要国会2/3的票以及全民半票支持。中国搞民运的人要找6.5亿人坚决支持在目前来看几乎不是可能的，还不如建议从基层工作做起。多做教师，或者做教师的教师。不夸张的一点一滴的教授民主的知识。慢慢的改变。 不过我感觉他们很急的。 回复得太长了。不好意思。

[@shuibui]

brave man！！

[@Lipawsky]

艾未未加油

[@questoid]

Weiwei cool!

[@magdalenaastudillodunoguie4709]

Guau! Ai Weiwei, Guau!

[@rulerchop4032]

This was awesome, but now I'm wondering how many of those seeds accidently got stolen by people getting them stuck in their shoes.

[@dorothyjane]

What camera does he use with the Kodak Tmx 5052 film for all the pictures in NYC?

[@SeekerKC]

And compelling man, as well as an artist. The Hirshhorn is showing two of Ai's installations until February 2013: Circle of Heads/Chinese Zodiac, and According to What? I'm very much looking forward to checking them out.

[@unexpectedzen]

It's a matter of time when the rest of people catch up with the thoughts, but someone has to get it started. QUESTIONING THINGS AND SPEAK UP

[@HarryChan2020]

鸟巢是艾未未设计的？？ 不是由2001年普利茨克奖获得者赫尔佐格、德梅隆(两位都来自瑞士）与中国建筑师李兴刚（中方总设计师）等合作完成的吗？

[@fftique]

支持艾未未，绝对反对北京的言禁政策

[@justinhuang7236]

He has a very interesting concern on surveillance camera but the truth is that this device may not be only "looking at him" though he is famous.

[@ebiqiu11]

我的英雄，最敬仰的人，艾爺，夠爺們兒

[@chrisdevins]

Inspiring

[@JETRONIGHTROAD]

when he was young, he earned the right to be called an antisytemic youngman, now in this times, when he is old, he keep fighting on his way and how he think it is the best way, how many of those who call him a liar, make something to make a change?

[@weisun3534]

Who we need for this century,Ai Wei Wei or Ma Yun

[@MrJason7828]

艾未未，你是中国的良心！！！！

[@everclear80]

哪里是纪录片，分明是广告片

[@user-zn3ez9cm2p]

整体来说不错，说出了在中国体制下搞艺术的困难。就是听着好像鸟巢全成了艾未未设计的？还是spare time？其实顾问而已，挂了个他的名。媒体都挺有意思的

[@gv3212]

我想知道這些瓜子現在的下落！

[@miaqin]

昌發周 已经发给所有人了，我当时留了两颗。

[@kwosin]

@powergirl7ful I admit I don't have the right to judge whether what he is doing is art. Maybe you don't read Chinese, what I was discussing before was about his role is designing Birds Nest. He is not the architect, he was a consultant. I am a architecture student (who also did a minor in fine arts in college), so I am kind of sensitive on this topic. Birds Nest was designed by Swiss architects Herzog and de Meuron in collaboration with China Architectural Design & Research Group.

[@jessewinchester]

@hewittzhong This documentary portrays a man of pure heart and creative genius and you are fixated on his weight? SMFH sheeeesh