Collective Monologue

Here, paws play an equal role. Animals are not treated as spectacle – they gaze at the camera as subjects, not objects. S

Jessica Sarah Rinland’s sensuous documentary poetically foregrounds the physical and emotional contact that occurs between animals and their carers, even within these spaces of surveillance.

The film reveals—and urges on—a historical shift in how we relate to other living beings.

A dull and undercooked fly-on-the-wall documentary.