Ai Weiwei, Chinese artist and activist whose work included sculptural installations, architectural projects, photographs, and videos. While Ai’s art was lauded internationally, its frequently provocative dimension as well as his political outspokenness
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(1993;The Power of the Image: Leni Riefenstahl, orThe Wonderful, Horrible Life of Leni Riefenstahl), in which she reveals herself as an undeniably brilliant woman with profoundly mixed feelings about her association with theThird Reich.Memoiren(1987;A Memoir, orThe Sieve of Time: The Memoirs ...
a record of Eskimo life based on personal observation, which was theprototypeof many documentary films. At about the same time, the British directorH. Bruce Woolfe reconstructed battles ofWorld War Iin a series ofcompilationfilms, a type of documentary that bases an interpretation of history on ...
Lanzmann relied on the same method of in-depth interviewing for his other major films: Tsahal (1994), interviews with soldiers and civilians about the Israeli army; Sobibor: October 14, 1943, 4 pm (2001), an interview with Yehuda Lerner, who took part in a successful uprising in the Sobib...