COLLECTIVE MONOLOGUE (2025)
Documentary | Language: Spanish (Argentina) | Subtitles: English | 104'
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SYNOPSIS
Intimate and fragmented moments unfold in a community of zoos and animal rescue centres across Argentina. As histories of these institutions are uncovered, dedicated workers commit both day and night to caring for the remaining enclosed animals, fostering a mutual bond that transcends imagined boundaries between human and animal.
PRESS QUOTES
“A patient and expansive work, organically weaving commentary on labor with rich observations about the dynamics between animals and carers. In her films, there’s an “anti-language,” which translates to a more embodied cinema, giving attention to texture and how different beings interact with their environment.”
Cici Peng & Nicolas Pedrero-Setzer – Variety
“An unclassifiable, breathtakingly beautiful work that challenges us to reconsider our place in the world... transcends the boundaries between human and animal, capturing the infinite tenderness of relationships rooted in the pure immediacy of existence”
Muriel Del Don – Cineuropa
“Collective Monologue evocatively flips the act of looking and the role of care back on the humans.”
Pat Mullen – Point of View Magazine
“Collective Monologue lingers on a more intimate and unassuming look into the tangled web of contradictions that make up the relationship between humanity and the world it inhabits.”
Joshua Peinado – In Review Online
“With a form that is intricate and precise, while pleasingly fragmented and open in construction, Rinland’s hypnotic approach invites questions about how we not only look at animals, but also share the world with them.”
Andréa Picard – TIFF
CAST & CREW
Cast - Macarena Santa María Lloydi, María Jose Micale , Alicia Delgado, Juanita, Franco Elio Itri
Writer/Director - Jessica Sarah Rinland
Cinematographer - Wojciech Staron
Editor - Jessica Sarah Rinland
Producers - Melanie Schapiro, Jessica Sarah Rinland
Associate Producers - Andreas Roald, Dan Wechsler, Jamal Zeinal Zade
Produced by - Trapecio Cine, Melanie Schapiro, Jessica Sarah Rinland
ABOUT THE DIRECTOR
Argentine-British filmmaker and artist Jessica Sarah Rinland has won awards including Special Mention at Locarno Film Festival for her first Feature Film, Primer Premio at Bienale de Imagen en Movimiento, Arts + Science Award at Ann Arbor Film Fetisval, ICA's Best Experimental Film at LSFF, and M.I.T's Schnitzer prize for excellence in the arts. 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. She is an Associate Artist at Somerset House Studios and a Film Studies Center Fellow at Harvard University.