Jessica Sarah Rinland exhibition opens at Tabakalera before IFFR 2025

Tabakalera, a centre for contemporary culture in San Sebastián, together with IFFR and the San Sebastián International Film Festival, opens an exhibition by Argentine-British filmmaker Jessica Sarah Rinland. Titled Extramission: The Capture of Glowing Eyes, the installation will then be shown at IFFR 2025.

Jessica Sarah Rinland’s new video installation pairs new moving images and audio recordings with pages from early 20th-century National Geographic magazines. The acts of conservation and repatriation in Rinland’s work suggest that contemporary acts of care can expose violences past.

Rinland, known for her experimental and documentary filmmaking, will also screen her latest film, Monólogo colectivo, at the San Sebastián Festival (20–28 September) after its premiere at the Locarno Festival. The film received Development Support from IFFR’s Hubert Bals Fund and was developed during her residency with the Ikusmira Berriak programme and supported by Tabakalera. 

The film is set across a community of zoos and animal rescue centres across Argentina, presenting a tapestry of intimate and fragmented moments that ruminate on care and captivity. 

The collaboration between Tabakalera and IFFR to support the production of new audiovisual installations reinforces our commitment to the crossover between film and contemporary art. 

Vive le cinéma! was an earlier collaboration surrounding IFFR’s 50th edition, presented at Tabakalera in 2022 after an exhibition in 2021 together with Eye Filmmuseum in Amsterdam. It presented the audiovisual creations of filmmakers Dea Kulumbegashvili, Isaki Lacuesta, Lemohang Jeremiah Mosese and Jia Zhangke.