Argentine-British artist filmmaker, JESSICA SARAH RINLAND is a recipient of numerous prizes including Special Mention at Locarno Film Festival, 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. Her work has been exhibited in Solo exhibitions at Tabakalera, San Sebastian in 2024, University of Tennessee’s Downtown Gallery, and Limbo Margate, and in group exhibitions including Southwark Park Galleries, Taipei Biennial, Somerset House, Bloomberg New Contemporaries.
She has had retrospectives of her films at Anthology Film Archives, Open City Documentary Festival, Doc’s Kingdom, Aricadoc, Eureka Film Festival, Curtocircuito, London Short Film Festival and Flaherty Film Seminar. Residencies include Film Studies Center at Harvard University, Somerset House Studios, Flaherty Seminar Fellow, MacDowell, and Ikusmira Berriak. Her films are held in the British Film Institute’s collections.
She currently works as an educator at Harvard Summer School and Goldsmiths, previously at UCL, Wellesley College and Kingston University, and as a freelance cinematographer, and a projectionist at the Barbican Center. She holds a BA in Fine Art from Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts London and a MSc in Arts, Culture and Technology from Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Artista y cineasta argentino-británica, JESSICA SARAH RINLAND ha recibido varios premios incluyendo Mención Especial en Locarno, Mejor Película en DocumentaMadrid, Primer Premio at Bienale de Imagen en Movimiento de Buenos Aires, y el Premio Schnitzer de MIT a la excelencia en las artes. Ha tenido exhibiciones en Tabakalera, San Sebastian en 2024, University of Tennessee’s Downtown Gallery, Limbo Margate, Southwark Park Galleries, Taipei Biennial, Somerset House, Bloomberg New Contemporaries.
Tuvo retrospectivas de sus películas en Anthology Film Archives, Open City Documentary Film Festival, Doc’s Kingdom, Curtocircuito, London Short Film Festival y Flaherty Film Seminar. Participo en residencias como Film Studies Center at Harvard University, Somerset House Studios, Flaherty Seminar Fellow, MacDowell, and Ikusmira Berriak. Sus películas se encuentran en las colecciones del British Film Institute.
Da clase en Harvard Summer School y Goldsmiths, previamente en UCL, Wellesley College y Kingston University. Trabaja de directora de foto y como proyeccionista en el Barbican Center. Tiene una licenciatura en Bellas Artes de Central Saint Martins y una maestría en Arte, Cultura y Tecnología del MIT. Actualmente es residente del Film Studies Center en la Universidad de Harvard.
Newspaper, Books, Magazine Reviews & Articles:
2021
Cartas como peliculas (Letters as Films), edited by Garbiñe Ortega, pp.162–165.
2020
¿Qué será del cine? Postales para el futuro (What Will Become of Cinema: Postcards for the Future), edited by Cecilia Barrionuevo and Marcelo Alderete, Mar Del Plata International Film Festival, pp. 194–195.
2020
Chaques Mercredi Caracas, edited by Edition HS, booklet under “Jessica”.
2020
Filmmaker Magazine Interview Those That, at a Distance, Resemble Another
2019
Cinema Scope Natural Wonders
2019
Film Comment Interview
2019
Sight & Sound A Gripping Restoration Drama
2019
Otros Cines Europa Those That, at a Distance, Resemble Another
2019
The Brooklyn Rail Ample Opportunity for Daydreaming
2018
Otros Cines Europa Black Pond Review
2018
Desistfilm Black Pond Review
2018
Desistfilm Interview
2017
Invitations and the Past and the Present by William Fowler
2017
Curtocircuito Catalogue Natural Histories (Page 126 - 130)
2016
New Scientist We Account the Whale Immortal
2016
The Guardian We Account the Whale Immortal