Close-up: Jessica Sarah Rinland

Bozar presents a Close-up on a remarkable new voice in cinema: Jessica Sarah Rinland is an Argentinian-British artist and filmmaker whose work is non-fictional, impressionistic, and tactile. His films are about care, the relationship between humans and animals and/or plants, and our relationship with the world.

Awarded the 2017 Schnitzer Prize for Excellence in the Arts by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Jessica Sarah Rinland has had her work exhibited in numerous international museums. Her films have been selected for prestigious festivals such as Locarno, Cinéma du Réel in Paris and IFF Rotterdam, and form part of the British Film Institute's collection. Her first feature, Those That, at a Distance, Resemble Another (2019), received a special mention at Locarno, while her most recent film, Monologo Colectivo, was acclaimed at San Sebastian. Her work has also been the subject of retrospectives, notably at the Open City Documentary Festival and the Flaherty Film Seminar.

Jessica also teaches at Harvard Summer School and Goldsmiths, having previously worked at UCL, Wellesley College, and Kingston University. She also works as a freelance director of photography and projectionist at the Barbican Centre. A graduate in Fine Arts from Central Saint Martins (University of the Arts London) and holder of a Master's degree in Arts, Culture and Technology from MIT, she is an important figure in contemporary documentary cinema, in which a gentle gaze becomes a way of reinventing our relationship with the living.