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“What if humans weren’t the primary audience for cinema? This is the provocative, purposively expansive question that sits at the centre of Animistic Apparatus, a research project looking at the “relationship between mediation, conceptions of life, and historical, cosmological and ecological imaginaries.” Taking the Thai tradition of itinerant outdoor film projection as inspiration, alongside broader examples of “Southeast Asia’s genealogies of media and ritual apparatus and cosmology”, the project proposes that across cinema projection, moving image installation and beyond, other means of film exhibition should be considered than that which presumes that films are made and shown for human spectatorship alone.”