Education:

2018
MSc in Arts, Culture and Technology at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA

2010
BA (First Honors) Fine Art at Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts London, UK 

2009
Spring Semester Film Production at Tisch, NYU, USA

2007
Foundation in Art & Design at Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts London, UK

Awards:

2020
DocumentaMadrid: Best National Film for Those that, at a distance, resemble another

2020
FestiFreak: Best Feature Film for Those that, at a distance, resemble another

2019
Locarno Film Festival: Special Mention for Those that, at a distance, resemble another 

2019
ZINEBI Film Festival: Special Mention for Those that, at a distance, resemble another

2018
BIM (Bienal de Imagen en Movimiento, Buenos Aires): Primer Premio for Black Pond 

2017
M.I.T. Harold and Arlene Schnitzer Prize in the Visual Arts 

2016
Curtocircuito Festival: Best Film for Ý Berá – Bright Waters

2014
Ann Arbor Film Festival: Arts + Science Award Adeline for Leaves

2014
Harvest Film Festival: Artists' film award for Adeline for Leaves

2013
London Short Film Festival: Best Experimental Film award for Electric Oil 

Residencies & Fellowships:

2016 - present
Associate Artist at Somerset House Studios, London, UK

2020
Ikusmira Berriak Residency, Spain

2020
Jury at FID Marseille

2017 - 2019
Film Studies Center Fellow at Harvard University, USA 

2018
Flaherty Seminar Fellow, USA

2016
The Syllabus at Wysing Arts Centre, Eastside Projects, New Contemporaries, S1 Artspace, Spike Island and Studio Voltaire, UK

2015
Feature Expanded at Lo Shermo Dell’Arte, Italy and HOME, Manchester, UK

2014
MacDowell Resident, USA

2013
Filmmaker in Residence at Kingston University, UK

2013
Locarno Filmmaker’s Academy

2012
Berlinale Talent Campus 

2011
Virtue & Industry Residency at Picture This, Bristol, UK

Biennials:

2020
Taipei Biennial, Taiwan: Ý Berá – Bright Waters 

2018
Venice Architecture Biennale, Swamp School: Black Pond

2016
Whitstable Biennale, UK: The Blind Labourer

Exhibitions:

2020
Solo Exhibition at University of Tennessee Downtown Gallery, USA

2017
MIT Exhibition for Harold and Arlene Schnitzer Prize in the Visual Arts: The Blind Labourer

2017
Jerwood Staging Series, Slant - for the Unsettling: Expression of the Sightless

2016
Somerset House, UTOPIA: We Account the Whale Immortal

2016
Of the Sea/Art in the Dockyard: The Blind Labourer

2016
BALTIC 39: Adeline For Leaves, Nulepsy and Darse Cuenta

2013
Solo Exhibition at LIMBO Gallery, Margate, UK: Dissecting The Exploding Whale 

2013
artlucuna: Electric Oil

2013
Whitechapel Gallery: Electric Oil 

2012
Execution Room, Vyner St: Darse Cuenta

2012
Young British Art, Limoncello Gallery: Nulepsy Attack

2011
Bloomberg New Contemporaries 2011: Nulepsy, Nulepsy Attack

2011
The Armory Show (Art Platform Los Angeles USA, Artillery Lounge): Nulepsy

Retrospectives:

2020
Retrospective at Eureka Film Festival, University of Bogotá, Colombia

2018
Retrospective and Juror at Curtocircuíto Film Festival

2016
Retrospective at London Short Film Festival

Conferences & Performances:

2019
Tabakalera, IV International Film Seminar

2019
Union Docs, NYC: Screening and Performance Lecture of Black Pond 

2019
National Maritime Museum: Maritime Animals

2018
List Visual Art Center, MIT: Performance Lecture Those That, at a Distance, Resemble Another

2016
Somerset House, UK: We Account the Whale Immortal Performance

2016
ICA Artists’ Film Biennial, UK: Screen and Animal Encounters Lecture

2014
National Maritime Museum, UK: Co-Curator of symposium The Whale, An Exploration 

2014
London Review Bookshop, UK: Whale Cultures Conference

2008
Curzon Cinema, Cinema Nation: Jonas Mekas in Conversation with Jessica Sarah Rinland

Funding & Grants

2020
Hubert Bals

2017
Council for the Arts MIT

2017
MIT International Science and Technology Initiatives 

2016
Arts Council England GFTA 

2016
The Elephant Trust

2016
RC Sherriff Trust 

2015
Arts Council England/British Council: Artists’ International Development Fund

2015
Wellcome Trust

Festivals & Screenings:

2019
Those That, at a Distance, Resemble Another

Locarno Film Festival; Toronto Film Festival; Viennale; ZINEBI; Valdivia; Mar del Plata; Cinema du Réel; Art of the Real; Anthology Film Archives, Harvard Film Archives; Open City Doc Festival; Valdivia; True/False; FICUNAM; San Francisco Film Festival; Juonju; PlayDoc

2018
Black Pond

Bienal de la Imagen en Movimiento (BIM); Venice Architecture Biannual; Berwick Film & Media Arts Festival; Punto de Vista; Essay Film Festival; London Short Film Festival

2016
Ý Berá - Bright Waters

Edinburgh International Film Festival; BIM, Buenos Aires; Mar Del Plata Film Festival; Harvard Film Archive; European Media Arts Festival; Lima Independiente Festival Internacional de Cine; Festival de Cine y Video Científico del Mercosur; Curtocircuíto 

2016
Expression of the Sightless

Edinburgh International Film Festival; Ann Arbor Film Festival; New Horizons; Curtocircuíto
2014 Adeline For Leaves

International Film Festival Oberhausen; Ann Arbor Film Festival; Edinburgh International Film Festival; New Horizons International Film Festival; Festival Nouveau Cinéma de Montréal; Encounters Film Festival; Aesthetica Film Festival; Underwire Film Festival; Les Rencontres Internationales; London Short Film Festival; Harvest Film Festival 

2014
Not As Old As The Trees

Tate Modern, Turbine Festival 2015; LSFF; Panel/Screening Wonderful Women at Smalls Film Festival 

2013
Electric Oil

LSFF; Screening at Whitechapel Gallery 

2010
Nulepsy

New York Film Festival; BFI London Film Festival; BAFTA Long Listed; International Film Festival Rotterdam; Ann Arbor Film Festival + Tour; broadcast by CANAL+; In The Palace Film Festival; Branchage Film Festival; Recontres Henri Langlois; Argentine Film Festival, London; S1/salon Tour

Employment:

2020 – present
Filmmaking Studies, Instructor and Tutor at Elías Querejeta Zine Eskola, Spain 

2013 – present
Cinema Projectionist at Barbican Cultural Centre, London, UK 

2020
Visiting Lecturer in Department of Film & Media at University of California Berkeley, USA 

2020
Visiting Lecturer in MA Environmental Programme at NYU, USA

2014 - 2019
Lecturer in MA Experimental Film and BA Film Production at Kingston        University, London, UK

2018
Visiting Lecturer in Critical Media Practice at Harvard University, USA

2018
Visiting Lecturer in the Studio Art Programme at Wellesley College, USA 

2018
Visiting Lecturer in Film Studies at Emerson College, USA

2018
Visiting Lecturer in Film Production at Edge Hill University, UK

2016 - 2018
Teaching Fellow in Arts, Culture and Technology at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA

2017
Director of Photography for Sam Ashby’s The Colour of His Hair

2016
Film Commission for Random Acts, Channel 4 The Flight of an Ostrich

2016
Film Commission for ICA’s London Short Film Festival

2014 - 2016
Film Commissions for Nowness Online Platform

2014
Film Commission for Historic Palaces, Tower of London: WWI Educational Film

2014
Film Commission for London Live/ESTV Not As Old As The Tree

2012
Film Commission for Moby-Dick Big Read Chapter 70: Description Of A Struggle

2009
Intern at Anthology Film Archives, NYC 

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