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Ai Weiwei Double Bill: CPH:DOX Showcases World Premiere Of Artist’s ‘Animality,’ International Premiere Of ‘Ai Weiwei’s Turandot’
Artist-filmmaker Ai Weiwei brings two films to CPH:DOX -- the world premiere of 'Animality,' and international premiere of 'Ai Weiwei's Turandot.'
In 1988, as a young man living in New York with his brother, Franco Zeffirelli cast the siblings in a production of Turandot that the Italian director was mounting at the Metropolitan Opera at Manhattan’s Lincoln Center. “Ai Weiwei’s first operatic staging (direction, sets, costumes and videos) is controversial, a gigantic, enjoyable funfair where the artist’s radical and intellectual quirks are displayed in all their glory,” says a review published by Bachtrack.com. “Videos and computer animations from present times are projected, quite unconnected to the plot’s dramaturgy, but dealing with some iconic moments: anti-government protests and their suppression in Hong Kong, refugees in Ukraine, flying bombs.”
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