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Primitive

Primitive is a multi-platform project by Apichatpong Weerasethakul that re-imagines Nabua, the ‘widow town’, as a town of men, freed from the widow ghost’s empire.

Commissioned by Haus der Kunst, Munich with FACT Liverpool, and Animate Projects. Produced by Illuminations Films, London with Kick the Machine, Bangkok.

Exhibitions include: Haus der Kunst, Munich; FACT, Liverpool; Tate Modern, London, New Museum, New York; Musee d’Art moderne de la Ville de Paris; HangarBicocca, Milan; and MUAC, Mexico City. Purchased by the Tate.

Click here for more information on the project and to watch Animate commissions A Letter to Uncle Boonmee and Phantoms of Nabua


Animate Projects is an Arts Council England National Portfolio Organisation.

Supported using public funding by Arts Council England

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