La línea es un río
“A Fine Day for Seeing” at Southwark Park Galleries
2021
Three-screen installation with 6:09 mins film, MiniDv
by Jessica Sarah Rinland in collaboration with poet Leo Boix
A stevedore works at the Tigre Delta outside Buenos Aires, in Argentina. He’s bundling up large alamo tree logs to be loaded into a truck. A crane fork hoists up a bag of gravel for use in construction. The murky reddish river of the Delta, the green islands of Tigre, subtropical trees, a boat sailing on a stream on a hot, humid day. The sound of cicadas. A young woman washes the deck of a commercial ship. This is the loop of the film. La línea es un río explores the inner life of the Paraná River, its mysterious ways, the people who live and work beside it, its beauty and complex landscapes. Filmmaker Jessica Sarah Rinland has created a short film in dialogue with Leo Boix’s poem ‘The Wall Built Between Argentina and Paraguay’, a long-distance and dual British-Argentinean exchange that explores notions of bilingualism, diaspora, illegal crossings, lines as frontiers or imaginary borders, and translations, cultural as well as linguistic.
