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‘Ai Weiwei’s Turandot,’ Behind-the-Scenes Look at His Radical Opera Production, Lands Sales Deal With Rise and Shine (EXCLUSIVE)
Ai Weiwei premieres two films at CPH:DOX: “Animality” and “Ai Weiwei’s Turandot,” a behind-the-scenes look at his radical opera production.
Maxim Derevianko’s “ Ai Weiwei ’s Turandot” has been picked up by Berlin-based doc specialist Rise and Shine World Sales, ahead of its international premiere on March 21 in the Highlights section of the Copenhagen documentary festival CPH:DOX. It features interviews with key players in Ai’s adaptation of “Turandot” including longtime friend, choreographer Chiang Ching, as well as Ukrainian conductor, Oksana Lyniv, who took the opportunity to speak out against Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, which had begun just a month earlier. Through an unflinching lens, Ai examines our complex, often exploitative rapport with animals, capturing raw, unscripted moments: uniformed men in China beating street dogs to death with sticks, camels in Egypt bound and forced into submission, ranchers in Brazil fueling Amazon deforestation for cattle expansion, and mink in Denmark being culled in mobile gas chambers during the COVID-19 outbreak.
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