Memory Is an Animal, It Barks with Many Mouths

Synopsis

In Eva Giolo’s latest work the resonances of place, magic and myth unfold through play. Attendant to the landscape through a child’s eye, the film streams into the vast, specific, hidden geologies of the Dolomite mountains through the trills and murmurs of Ladin, the minority Rhaeto-Romance language spoken in the region. As the children narrate local folklore, this language and its oral traditions, passed from body to body, themselves become corporeal and indivisible from the land.

Biography and Films

Eva Giolo (Belgium, 1991) is an artist working in film, video and installation who has made over a dozen short films. Her work places particular focus on the female experience, employing experimental and documentary strategies to explore themes of intimacy, permanence and memory, along with the analysis of language and semiotics. Her films, installations and projects have been widely exhibited internationally at festivals, museums, and galleries. She is a founding member of the elephy platform.