ABOUT
Jacqui Davies is a producer and curator, working at the intersection of art and cinema, and director of production company Primitive Film. She has produced over 80 films across art and cinema, as well as site-specific commissions and works for stage and broadcast. Her film productions have premiered at international film festivals including: Cannes Film Festival, Locarno and CPH: DOX. She commissioned and produced experimental animation and artists’ films for Channel 4 over a period of 12 years. Davies has also produced and curated installations and exhibitions for galleries and museums internationally, with artists including Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Martha Rosler, Mark Leckey, Diego Marcon, Ben Rivers, Pauline Curnier Jardin, Tacita Dean, Tony Cokes and many more. She has curated several art and film exhibitions and programmes, including Tremulations which is evolving and touring internationally.
In 2007, Davies co-founded Animate Projects, which built on the existing Arts Council England/ Channel 4 commissioning programme, ANIMATE! As Head of Production and Gallery Exhibition she commissioned several projects, including A Letter to Uncle Boonmee and Phantoms of Nabua by Apichatpong Weerasethakul, and Unfolding the Aryan Papers by Jane & Louise Wilson .
Between 2011 and 2013, she produced 25 artists’ films for Television as part of Random Acts for Channel 4, which were co-commissioned by FACT Liverpool.
Davies is BAFTA-nominated for RAY & LIZ, (dir. Richard Billingham) and winner of a BIFA Breakthrough Producer award and the BFI Vision Award. She is a recipient of ACE Producers, 2020 (ACE30).
Davies has devised programmes, lectured and spoken film festivals worldwide; including Cannes, Berlinale and CPH:DOX; Art fairs and institutions including Frieze, Loop and MIART; and universities including RCA, Goldsmiths University of London and Städelschule, Frankfurt. She devised and ran a professional development for Film London and was a tutor on Feature Expanded artist development programme between Manchester and Florence over its 4-year existence.
Since 2022 Davies has collaborated with Daniel Birnbaum to develope an ongoing interstitial curatorial, artistic and educational practice. Devising and curating lecture series and exhibitions that challenge received curatorial modes and where she has made artistic works as part of these exhibitions including Dream Machines, a film as an exhibited art piece and exhibition catalogue, for Dream Machines, DESTE, Hydra, Greece. And video works as part of the ongoing Tremulations project, with exhibition in London, Paris and Stockholm.