Jessica Sarah Rinland: Filmmaker in Focus

Those That, at a Distance, Resemble Another meditates upon the endless tactility of museological and ecological conservation, inviting reflection upon forms of representation, replicas, and embodiments of various materials, disciplines, and institutions.

Black Pond explores the activity within a common land in the south of England. The land is currently inhabited by a Natural History Society whose occupations include bat and moth trapping, mycology, tree measuring, and botanical walks.

Accounts ranging from varying moments in human history, describe the organisms that inhabit the second largest wetland in the world, Ibera, Argentina.

The film examines the similarities and contrasts within the whaling and lumber industry. It edits together archive footage of labourers in the forests, at sea and in factories, felling trees, cutting whales and developing their multiple products for society and scientific studies.

A blind man’s inquisitive hands explore a sculpture.

The film examines the ever-enigmatic whale by revealing its interior, taking away its mystery and disparity, highlighting similarities between seemingly contrasting, expired organisms.

Nature, science and mythology are explored through the eyes of an eleven-year-old botanical prodigy.