An Argentine-British artist filmmaker, Jessica Sarah Rinland’s work has been screened and exhibited internationally at the Toronto Film Festival, the New York Film Festival, the BFI London Film Festival, Rotterdam, Oberhausen, Cinema du Reel, Somerset House (2016) and Bloomberg New Contemporaries (2011). She has won awards including Special Mention at the Locarno Film Festival for her first Feature Film (Those That, at a Distance, Resemble Another, 2019), Primer Premio at Bienale de Imagen en Movimiento (Black Pond, 2018), the Arts + Science Award at the Ann Arbor Film Festival (2014), ICA’s Best Experimental Film at LSFF (2013), and M.I.T’s Schnitzer prize for excellence in the arts (2017). Residencies include the Film Studies Center at Harvard University, Somerset House Studios, Flaherty Seminar Fellow, MacDowell and Ikusmira Berriak. She holds a BA (Honours) in Fine Art from Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts London, and an MSc in Arts, Culture and Technology from Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Last update of this profile: 2021
