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Jessica Sarah Rinland Discusses Her Latest Sensorial Documentary ‘Collective Monologue’ at Its Locarno Premiere
Jessica Sarah Rinland's 'Collective Monologue' documents the mutual bond between zoo animals and their caretakers.
Her focus on instances of touch between caretaker Maca and the animals at the Buenos Aires Eco-Park, which are frequently framed by the park’s enclosures, reveals a tension between the radical acts of care and the politics of captivity inherent to institutions such as zoos. “My interest in hands has to do with process, it has to do with labor, it has to do with tools,” Rinland tells Variety following a press screening before the film’s world premiere at Locarno.Her multi-disciplinary career as an artist, which also encompasses book-making and installation work, has always focused on alternative modes of perception. Her short film “Expression of the Sightless”(2015) observes a blind man who experiences a statue through the sensation of touch, and in “Ý Berá – Bright Waters” (2016), she asks whether it is possible to assume the perspective of an animal through filmmaking.
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