Please join us at the Harvard Film Archive for a special screening of Those That, at a Distance, Resemble Another and conversation with filmmaker and FSC-Harvard fellow, Jessica Sarah Rinland.

Those That, at a Distance, Resemble Another
Directed by Jessica Sarah Rinland
UK/Argentina/Spain, 2019, DCP, color, 67 min.
Spanish, Portuguese and English with English subtitles.

A meditation on the art and craft of conservation as a creative process, Jessica Sarah Rinland’s poetic documentary Those That, at a Distance, Resemble Another follows the painstaking creation of a museum-quality replica of a historic elephant tusk. Observing closely the hands and tools of conservators, and the filmmaker herself, the film effectively defamiliarizes the ritualistic and technical work of conservators in a number of different museums and laboratories, including the Harvard Art Museums. This is the latest of a number of films Jessica Sarah Rinland has made exploring ecological and epistemological concepts and concerns.

After the screening, Jessica Sarah Rinland will be joined in a conversation with HFA Director Haden Guest and Narayan Khandekar, Director of the Straus Center for Conservation and Technical Studies, Harvard Art Museums.

Tickets and more information on the HFA website