Experimenta

Collective Monologue

+ director Jessica Sarah Rinland in conversation with academic and critic Erika Balsom

We mark the UK launch of Jessica Sarah Rinland’s intimate new film about Argentinian zoos and animal sanctuaries.

  • Director

    Jessica Sarah Rinland

  • UK-Argentina 2024. 104min. Total running time 130min

  • Digital

  • Courtesy of Sovereign Film Distribution

Shot in Rinland’s signature attentive style, Collective Monologue documents and explores the circumstances in which animals are cared for across a series of Argentinian zoos and animal rescue centres. Simultaneously moving and thought provoking, Rinland’s film illustrates the complex power of human, animal relations as variously parrots, turtles, anteaters and monkeys receive close, individual care against a backdrop of institutional management and change.