  We study a classical bilocal field theory perturbatively up to second order.
The chosen theory is the simplest which incorporates action-at-a-distance,
while keeping non-local effects short-ranged. We show that the new degrees of
freedom introduced by bilocality can be interpreted as gravitational degrees of
freedom in the following sense: solutions of the bilocal system at linear and
second order contain as a subset, gravitational perturbations (spacetime
fluctuations) also to that order. In other words, gravity can be thought to
originate in a bilocal field theory. We examine potential implications.
