Movie
The Crab House
2012 · 60 min
Watching this feels like quietly witnessing bureaucratic power crush a personal project, leaving a lingering unease.
- Directed by
- Ai Weiwei
- Genres
- Documentary
- Overview
- Early in 2008, the district government of Jiading, Shanghai invited Ai Weiwei to build a studio in Malu Township, as a part of the local government's efforts in developing its cultural assets. By August 2010, the Ai Weiwei Shanghai Studio completed all of its construction work. In October 2010, the Shanghai government declared the Ai Weiwei Shanghai Studio an illegal construction, and was subjected to demolition.
- How it feels
- Dark, melancholic and tense. Measured and needs your attention.
- About
- Power, politics, justice, corruption
- Content
- Mild violence. No gore, sexual content or swearing.
- Note
- Written by AI, so it can be wrong. Full breakdown
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- Directed by
- Ai Weiwei
- Genres
- Documentary