Jessica Sarah Rinland
Jessica Sarah RINLAND (UK) is an Argentine-British filmmaker and artist with a BA (First-Class Honours) in Fine Art from Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts London and an MSc in Arts, Culture and Technology from Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She has earned awards including Special Mention at Locarno Film Festival for her first Feature Film, Best Film at DocumentaMadrid, Primer Premio at BIM (Bienale de Imagen en Movimiento Buenos Aires), Arts + Science Award at Ann Arbor Film Festival, and Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Schnitzer prize for excellence in the arts in 2017. She has screened and exhibited work at TIFF, NYFF, BFI London Film Festival, Rotterdam, Oberhausen, Edinburgh International Film Festival, Bloomberg New Contemporaries and Somerset House.
Filmography
Fog (2008, short), The Laughing Man (2008, short), A great Day to Lose Him To Adeline (2008, short), Run Bird, Run (2009, short), The Big Fish Theory (2009, short), Nulepsy (2010, short), Adeline for Leaves (2013, short), Expression of the Sightless (2016, short doc), The Blind Labourer (2016, short doc), His Nipple (2016, short), Schools Interior: The Flight of an Ostrich (2016), Y Berá: Aguas de Luz (2016, short doc), Black Pond (2018, short doc), Those That, at a Distance, Resemble Another (2019, doc), Sol de Campinas (2021, short doc), Puerta a Puerta (2022, short doc), Monólogo Colectivo (2024, doc)
Jessica Sarah Rinland at IFFR
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Monólogo colectivo
A sensitive, intimate documentary about the interactions and strong bonds between animals and their carers.
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Extramission: The Capture of Glowing Eyes
Through image technology we witness acts of conservation and repatriation from London to Argentina.
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The Colour of His Hair
Drama and documentary merge in an impressionistic meditation on outlawed queer life and the struggle for gay rights in the UK in the 1960s.
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Nulepsy
An elderly man tells us about his life with a very odd disease, nulepsy. What is that naked man doing on that skateboard?