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Ai Weiwei: Yours Truly [Partially subtitled] [Plays in Virtual Cinema sponsored by MSP Film Society; for more information, log on to mspfilm.org.] Cheryl Haines's engaging, informative, inspirational, poignant, 76-minute, 2019 documentary that focuses on famous Chinese artist and outspoken human rights activist Ai Weiwei and his socially relevant 2014 art exhibition called @Large: Weiwei on Alcatraz, which was viewed by more than 900,000 visitors on Alcatraz Island penitentiary who penned more than 92,000 postcards to prisoners around the world, that pays homage to the many current and former prisoners, such as journalists, poets, and human rights activists, from twenty-two countries who have been unjustly imprisoned for disagreeing with those in power and consists of amazing Lego portraits, archival photographs and film footage, and commentary by Weiwei's mother Gao Ying and brother Ai Dan, Amnesty International director Steven Hawkins, designer Wu Tun, dissident poet Ai Qing, former intelligence officer and whistleblower Chelsea Manning, ex-CIA officer John Kiriakou, and Guggenheim Museum curator Alexandre Munroe.
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