{"id":62007,"date":"2014-11-25T17:01:31","date_gmt":"2014-11-25T17:01:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/?p=62007"},"modified":"2017-03-23T16:58:30","modified_gmt":"2017-03-23T16:58:30","slug":"27-nov-ai-weiwei-fake-case-film-screening-qa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/?p=62007","title":{"rendered":"27 Nov: Ai\u00a0Weiwei: The Fake Case &#8211; film screening + Q&#038;A"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/zXcqM9p9P60\" width=\"700\" height=\"394\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Danish filmmaker Andreas Johnsen documents, over the course of four years, the high-profile court battle between world renowned artist and political activist\u00a0Ai\u00a0Weiwei\u00a0and the Chinese authorities.<\/p>\n<p>Detained for alleged tax evasion,\u00a0Ai\u00a0Weiwei\u00a0spent 81 days in a cell with two guards watching his every move. On probation at the time of filming, and deeply affected by his ordeal, the artist continues to proclaim his innocence, despite the authorities&#8217; unrelenting attempts to silence him. Johnsen&#8217;s candid portrait digs deep into the life and mind of a man single-handedly battling for the truth behind what has come to be known as a multi-million dollar &#8220;fake case&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The screening will be followed by a Q&amp;A with film-maker Andreas Johnsen, chaired by Index on Censorship\u2019s David Heinemann<\/p>\n<p><strong>WHERE:<\/strong> Hackney Picturehouse, London, E8 1HE<br \/>\n<strong>WHEN:\u00a0<\/strong>Thursday 27 November 2014, 20:30 followed by Q&amp;A<br \/>\n<strong>TICKETS<\/strong>: Available\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.picturehouses.co.uk\/cinema\/Hackney_Picturehouse\/film\/Nordic_Film_Festival_2014_Ai_Weiwei_The_Fake_Case\">Here<\/a><\/p>\n<p>This event is presented as part of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.day-for-night.org\/nff-the-fake-case\">the Nordic Film Festival<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Join Index for a screening and discussion of Andreas Johnsen&#8217;s acclaimed documentary about the famous Chinese artist Ai Weiwei <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":62008,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[7],"tags":[327,6831,7364,442,4092,6830,6829],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62007"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=62007"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62007\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":87155,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62007\/revisions\/87155"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/62008"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=62007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=62007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=62007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}