Lung Neaw Visits His Neighbours

The film documents the everyday rural life of sixty-year-old Lung Neaw (Uncle Neaw). Tiravanija shows the former rice farmer fishing, hunting and gathering herbs. He also accompanies him on his numerous visits and encounters – from the local sage, to the elephant king in the valley, to the children in his own front yard. 

“We have to ask, ‘What more can one want when one is already living in Paradise?’, in this moment when many people are asking for equality, opportunity, self determination and for democracy in the hands of the people, in Lung Neaw we find both answers and questions to these demands. We find it in the sustenance of self awareness and sufficiency and in compassion and humility, we find it in the narrative of the real and of the simplicity of each day.”
— Rirkrit Tiravanija