thousand and seventeen beijing passed new laws regulating its film industry stating that movies must quote serve the people and socialism it also said that any film submitted to no overseas film festival would require official approval. chinese artist ai wei wei also says he s been targeted by beijing s film censors it relates to the city s of love film anthology he was invited to direct one of the episodes in the new berlin i love you but he found out that his contribution was cut this is part of his statement quote it was infuriating to find our involvement had been raised the reason we were given for the episodes removal was that my political status had made it difficult for the production team to secure further funding i wait spoke to t w about these allegations and in exclusive also told us about why the film was not considered for the berlin film festival he hardly needs an
at the two thousand and eight beijing olympics well he withdrew his film one seconds from the event and according to reports it had to do with chinese censors the film is set during china s brutal cultural revolution period back in two thousand and seventeen beijing passed new laws regulating its film industry stating that movies must quote serve the people and socialism it also said that any film submitted to an overseas film festival would require official approval. chinese artist ai wei wei also says he s been targeted by beijing s film censors in relates to the cities of love film anthology he was invited to direct one of the episodes in the new berlin i love you but he found out that his contribution was cut this is part of his statement quote it was infuriating to find our involvement had been raised the reason we were given for the episodes removal was that my political status had made it difficult for the production team to secure further funding i will wait spoke to t w about
famous artist ai wei wei also spoke out and i believe he s actually going to be talking to us in a few hours time on g.w. . husband s first anniversary is on friday and a special remembrance service is being has yes now this was planned long before we knew this news it will be one year since the death of a husband and it features many prominent people from the cultural scene here including volved b.m. and a singer songwriter who we know the well doesn t he s the most famous east german cultural dissident if you like back in the day and also the nobel literature prize with a handsome and i d like to read a poem which we found this is written by a new job to have some actually and explains really in a few words what it s like to be what she s been in almost solitary confinement for
very you social violet will start even if you re all human beings. and i ve got a little i got. i. the chinese artist ai wei wei has made the global crisis surrounding displacement refugees migration and exile the central theme of his recent work. for using inducting here you are since twenty fourteen more than ten thousand refugees have died in the mediterranean people. are document everything of course which i think records are needed for future generations so they don t think. someone documented it.
my darling this is my favorite photograph is me and your grandfather. it was taken in shanghai before your father was born yes. and i ching and go he didn t you know that s almost sixty years ago amazing. really almost sixty years i don t know if you were twenty three that you know yes from the artist. or. what he wants i wanted to be where he can live in freedom like. yes and i treated it. well and others but it s good that he still has a chinese passport so he can return because i m still here. what you do after i m gone is up to you but as long as i m alive you need to come back one thing. who can stop us right now.