Can Art Save The World? Ai Weiwei - The Fake Case + Short Film Pimeydestä Pimeyttä Vastaan

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The Chinese dissident artist Ai Weiwei is considered to be the world’s most powerful and influential artists. In the next Doc Lounge Helsinki screening, we will watch a Danish documentary that got access to the artist when he wasn't allowed to talk to any media at all. The film Ai Weiwei – The Fake Case got selected to the competition for feature-length documentaries at IDFA 2013.

After the film artist Jani Leinonen, Sini Mononen, editor-in-chief of Mustekala and film director Iiris Anttila will join us for a discussion about art, its power to change the world and the artist as a brand. The evening starts with the short film Pimeydestä pimeyttä vastaan by Iiris Anttila, a dialogue between her and the world of Joose Keskitalo’s music. The films have English subtitles and the discussion afterwards will be in English.

When: 16.4 at 7 pm
Where: Lavaklubi (Läntinen teatterikuja 1)
Tickets: 5 euros

Ai Weiwei - The Fake Case
Andreas Johnson, Denmark, 2013, 86'

Andreas Johnson has directed an intimate and energetic film about Ai Weiwei, the court case around him and about Chinese contemporary society. The film captures the many sides of the artist, the seriousness of the situation, as well as the twinkle in his eyes that makes Weiwei who he is.

Ai Weiwei was secretly imprisoned for 81 days, or, in his own words, kidnapped by the state. He is subjected to heavy physical, psychological and economical restrictions. After he is released from the secret prison, Ai Weiwei is put under house arrest and dared not to talk to the media. In spite of the struggles of being a dissident artist with a family, Ai Weiwei turns his confinement into art.

In one of his famous art pieces, Weiwei Cam – also partly featured in the film – Ai Weiwei puts up a surveillance camera over his bed, sending the material online. Through a website, anyone could look at him sleeping. “I have no secrets, you have secrets” is what he tells the authorities, who did not like his transparency art piece and ordered it to be taken down. After spending some time convincing Ai Weiwei to let him make the film, Johnson has, as a one-man-army, made an impressive film about both a man and an artist.

Pimeydestä pimeyttä vastaan
(Hello Darkness, My Old Friend)
Iiris Anttila, Elo, 2013, 10’

As the collaboration with Elo film school and Susanna Helke continues, the next film is an interesting exploration between the director Iiris Anttila and the music of Joose Keskitalo. Keskitalo is a Finnish singer/songwriter with melancholic lyrics about death and religion to beautiful experimental folk tunes.

Doc Lounge - Redefining documentary screenings

Doc Lounge screens high quality documentaries with a mix of the local, national and international in eighteen cities in the Nordic Countries. The club in Helsinki is organized once a month at Lavaklubi.

www.doclounge.fi

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