Human Flow Ai Weiwei, Director 5 0ut of 6 Ai Weiwei , artist and activist, made the film, Human Flow, to call attention to a humanitarian crisis across the globe – that of refugees. He traveled to 23 countries documenting the plight of throngs of people – hundreds of thousands; millions – forced to flee their homelands because of the violence of war, religious persecution, drought, plague of disease and every other creator of misery known to man. We get the impression early on that Ai kept a written journal along with his video journal, and somewhere late in the process, maybe in post-production, the pages of the journal were torn from their binding and scattered in the wind. He collected them all and reassembled them with little concern for chronology, context, or linear thinking. He’s an artist , after all. His product is beautiful in so many aspects. Breathtaking images of sunsets, seas, and the mesmerizin...