Human Flow

Ai Weiwei, Germany, USA, 2017o

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Human Flow is director and artist, Ai Weiwei's detailed and heartbreaking exploration into the global refugee crisis.

Weiwei’s approach is clearly not to furnish political explanations, still less political solutions – although these are touched on towards the end of the film – but rather to make the leap of empathy, to understand what being a migrant is like in human terms.

Peter Bradshaw

Ai uses staggering landscape shots and dynamic low-angle compositions to frame his subjects against great expanses of sky, and when he shoots people in close-up, he excludes almost anything that might distract from their faces or bodies, rendering them monumental. The effect of this large-scale imagery is twofold: It conveys the immense number of human beings that have been displaced in the 2010s—as many, if not more, according to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, than the number of people displaced by World War II. Moreover, the imagery encourages viewers to adopt a global perspective in considering the subject matter.

Ben Sachs

Le film peut paraître décousu : Ai Weiwei n’a pas de message à délivrer, il rappelle simplement de manière directe, affolante et belle, que tout être humain a le droit de migrer et d’être accueilli, mais que ce droit fondamental est bafoué. Tout près de nous, dans notre village global.

Jacques Morice

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Tages-Anzeiger, 11/15/2017
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Documentary on Ai Weiwei shooting the film
Eva Mehl, Bettina Kolb / Deutsche Welle
en / 6/20/2017 / 42‘26‘‘

Interview with Ai Weiwei
/ Build Series
en / 10/5/2017 / 30‘22‘‘

Artist Talk with Ai Weiwei
From Chris Dercon / Haus der Kunst
en / 47‘30‘‘

Movie Datao

Genre
Documentary 
Running time
140 Min.
Original languages
English, Arabic, Farsi, French
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Interview mit Ai Weiwei
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Artist Talk with Ai Weiwei
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