Collective Monologue

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Collective Monologue

2025

1h 44m

Documentary

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Composed of intimate and fragmented moments of animals and careers in a community of zoos and animal rescue centers across Argentina, Collective Monologue explores the beings that continue to inhabit these polemic institutions. Zookeeper Maca dedicates both night and day to the captive animals. She has been caring for them for over twenty years in a mutual bond that moves beyond imagined boundaries, dissolving the power relationship between human-animal.

Hope Rangaswami

Sight & Sound

Feb 25

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

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Phuong Le

Guardian

Feb 19

3/5

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.

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William Repass

Slant Magazine

07/13/2025

2.5/4

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

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Avi Offer

NYC Movie Guru

07/15/2025

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

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Diego Batlle

Otroscines.com

01/16/2025

3.5/5

Intimate, subtle and at times fascinating... [Full review in Spanish]

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Carlos Losilla

Caimán Cuadernos de Cine

11/07/2024

Exemplary. [Full review in Spanish]

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Stephen C

@bob25009 07/17/2025

Real footage in 1 hour and 44 minutes!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! In Latin American Spanish and American English audio versions with American English subtitles!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Filmed on location in Argentina!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Composed of intimate and fragmented moments of animals and careers in a community of zoos and animal rescue centers across Argentina, Collective Monologue explores the beings that continue to inhabit these polemic institutions. Zookeeper Maca dedicates both night and day to the captive animals. She has been caring for them for over twenty years in a mutual bond that moves beyond imagined boundaries, dissolving the power relationship between human-animal.

Director: Jessica Sarah Rinland
Producer: Melanie Schapiro
Screenwriter: Jessica Sarah Rinland, Jessica Sarah Rinland
Distributor: Grasshopper Film
Production Co: Trapecio Cine
Genre: Documentary
Original Language: Spanish
Release Date (Theaters): Jul 17, 2025, Limited
Runtime: 1h 44m