All language subtitles for Those That, at a Distance, Resemble Another V.O. (Jessica Sarah Rinland) (1440x1080).eng

When discussing the importance of
the replica in relation to the original

the experts mentioned that the
Latin root of the word if original is orior

meaning arising or being born

They said that the artwork may be original

but it is also a reproduction
of the animal depicted

and that the animal depicted is
only a DNA replica of her ancestor

She has a baby

Kala is with infant

We are trembling here

Congratulations to all
involved, we have a monkey

Reintroduction roller-coaster

Following a trio is going to be insane

Sometimes they have two
infants, but I wasn’t able to see

I saw one little tail, but I want to be sure

It is possible for two to survive?

Two babies would be
great, we are needing it

I had a friend called Maximiliano

When he was young he wanted to be a tree

He would gather branches and
stand in the middle of the garden

with his hands in the air

He would stand very very still

because he wanted the
birds to mistake him for a tree

so that he could have a bird

The patience of a five-year-old
is three to four seconds

He never caught anything

He even dressed in green

There was logic but no tenacity

Go ahead

Further back

Put your head back

There

You were asking

The original is the left tusk
of a female that was poached

near the Shire River in Malawi

It was donated to the museum in July 1900

I took around eighty photographs
to produce a rendering

followed by this print

While talking to one of the experts

they told me that this excavation
part of the process reminded them

of the worms that help
preserve ancient buried objects

They said that they owe their life’s
work as archaeologists to earthworms

Done

More over here

Look at me

Up

Down

Grab one piece from the table

It’s really runny

Do it as if you were putting it in the box

Careful, it’s going to fall

There’s a bit left

Throw it in

The text said that

the copy is perfect and unalterable

and that the original is a
victim of time and reality

What were you seeing?

How much were you seeing?

Here?

Here

to here

and from there to there

I could see the two of you working together

Alright?

Perfect

I’m going to go to the other side

Clean it there in the corner, too

down there at the join

there, there

but not too much

Can you pass me the soap please?

It's 98% natural

They do it by eye

They told me slip casting
was invented in Peru

around two thousand years
ago to manufacture panpipes

Much later it came into
use in Europe in the 1800s

They said I should do the
replica this way because

it reminded them of the
process ivory goes through

to become a fossil

It’s okay

No

Here

It moved up

Shall we take it out?

Yes

Cone 06

998°C in the kiln

It didn’t shrink much

Similar to if you were
to put bones in the fridge

I asked the conservator,
the expert, to break it

They did not want to, as it is the
opposite of what they normally do

which is to prevent the death of an object

They study and know so
many details about an object

that, in a way, they embody the
original artist who made the work

so that they are then
able to fix or replicate it

But I finally convinced
them and they did it

You can see that they broke the part
that protrudes from the elephant’s mouth

with a hammer

They then taught me how to
fix it with this animal hide glue

Eva is obsessed with nature documentaries

She really likes one called “African Night”

They migrate at night because it is cooler

A pack of sleeping lions

The elephants noticed that they were there

and stayed incredibly still

eventually walking in
the opposite direction

They say that elephants can feel
vibrations under their feet because

they walk on their tiptoes

They don’t walk the same
way we do with the entire foot

They are ballerinas

You’re using it as if it
were a pencil but it isn’t

He held it like this

Look

He put pressure on it
like this, rather than that

No look, like this

Even with the Q-tip

he grabbed it like this
and placed it like this

When you were writing I thought
this was getting into the shot

but it was your head doing a “fade out”

Did you place in the weight?

Yes

Leave the light there

This goes up?

Down

Here is where the conservator broke it

Where is the seed?

Here is where it took its first breath

An inhale

Here is the seed

The “vegetable ivory”

I don’t know what would
happen to this ceramic

if we were to add a drop of sulfuric acid

We’ll see

I like the broken tip over there

They use it to differentiate
the seed which is a substitute

and the original ivory

The seed turns a shade
of pink after twelve seconds

Nothing happens to the ivory

Artifacts were organized and packed away
into temperature-controlled storage spaces

by Carlows "Tijolo" Augusto da Silva,
Saulo Moreno Rocha, Mayara Monteiro

Archaeologists, Conservators and Staff
at Laboratório de Arqueologia, Manaus

Confiscated poached ivory
held at customs was donated

and used to restore a
nineteenth-century ivory jewelry box

then packed away

by Nigel Bamforth, Furniture Conservator
at Victoria & Albert Museum, London

Eighty-seven elephant tusks
traveling from West Africa to Liverpool

buried under sea in a shipwreck since 1881

were placed in a blue container
and covered in bubble wrap

by Richard Sabin, Curator of Mammals
at Natural History Museum, London.

Soft structures were
constructed to house textiles

by Nalu Maria,
Conservator at Museu de Arte Sao Paulo

Sponges were cut into small pieces
and used to clean animal bones

by conservators and volunteers at
Grant Museum of Zoology, London

Replicas of Greek and Egyptian
objects were fabricated and presented

by Mike Nielson,
Facsimile Technician at British Museums, London

Patterns of traditional polychrome Amazonian
funerary urns were traced and measured

by Erendira Oliveira, Archaeologist at
Museu de Arqueologiae Etnologia, Sao Paulo

Replicas of ancestral
subjects were sculpted in clay

by Luis and Ceramicists at Anisio Artesanato
and Museu Paraense Emilio Goeldi, Belem

Pre-Columbian potshards were clipped for sampling

by Eduardo Neves, Archaeologist at
Museude Arqueologia e Etnologia, Sao Paulo

Howler monkeys, Kala and Cesar,
were re-introduced into Parque Nacional da Tijuca

and reproduced, birthing Tupi

by Luisa Genes and Cesar Britto,
Biologists at Projeto Refauna, Rio de Janeiro