Documentary from Ai Weiwei (Beijing 2003) exploring the global refugee crisis. Nominated for the Golden Lion at Venice.
Captured over the course of an eventful year in 23 countries, the film follows a chain of urgent human stories that stretches across the globe in countries including Afghanistan, Bangladesh, France, Greece, Germany, Iraq, Israel, Italy, Kenya, Mexico, and Turkey.
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Director Ai Weiwei’s exposé about the global refugee crisis opens with long drone-captured shots of small boats travelling across a seemingly endless expanse of water. The colour of the ocean and the sky is a similar kind of blue: pale, shimmering aqua. Our minds don’t know what to make of a tableau as vast and awe-inspiring as this; the feeling is like trying to contemplate infinity.
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There's nothing especially distinctive about the package, nothing to tell you this is the work of the most recognisable living artist of the moment.
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This is angry, thoughtful, straightforward activist journalism: blunt, simple and impossible to ignore.
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Mr. Ai's ambition in "Human Flow" is as expansive as his reach and his apparently deep-pocketed resources.
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An ambitious, humane and often shocking cine-essay on the subject of migrants and the 21st century migrant condition.
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An artful, solemn globe-hop epic of the refugee crisis with an unfortunate cast of millions.
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Although maybe a little naive in places, this is an unflinching record of a cry of anguish that has to be heard and acted upon. Everyone needs to see this.
Full reviewHuman Flow is available to stream in Australia now on Google Play and Apple TV.
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