Thursday 30 April 2026
10:00–13:00, Argos
Case study by Eva Giolo
On April 30th, artist and filmmaker Eva Giolo will discuss her practice and open up her creative process presenting the films Memory Is an Animal, It Barks with Many Mouths (2025) and The Demands of Ordinary Devotion (2022).
Synopsis
Memory Is an Animal, It Barks with Many Mouths (2025)
In Memory Is an Animal, It Barks with Many Mouths the resonances of place, magic and myth unfold through play. Attendant to the landscape through a child’s-eye, the film streams into the specific, hidden, and vast 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, itself becomes corporeal and indivisible from the land. (Open City Documentary Film Festival)
The Demands of Ordinary Devotion (2022)
A film constructed based on a game of chance and a collection of encounters in workshops and homes in the city of Rome. Although the protagonists never appear together, they are inextricably bound by their actions — meaning is conveyed through movement and its associated sound, slowly forming a visual exploration of physicality. The Demands of Ordinary Devotion invites a reflection on the process of making, the prospect of motherhood, and uncertainties in creation, balance and composition.
About Eva Giolo
Eva Giolo is an audiovisual artist working in film, video, and installation. 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 other projects have been widely exhibited at festivals, museums and galleries internationally, including Sadie Coles HQ, Harlan Levey Project, WIELS centre for Contemporary Art, MAXXI–National Museum of 21st Century Art, BOZAR Centre for Fine Arts, Palazzo Strozzi, Museum of Contemporary Art Antwerp, Kunsthalle Wien, International Film Festival Rotterdam, Kunstmuseum Den Haag, Media City Film Festival, FIDMarseille, Vision du Réel, Anthology Film Archives and New York Film Festival amongst others.
Her film Flowers Blooming in Our Throats had been nominated for The European film award and awarded the Top Prize at THIS IS SHORT 2021, a collaborative online event co-presented by the International Short Film Festival Oberhausen, Vienna Short Film Festival, and other European organizations. She is the recipient of a VAF Wildcard Prize (2016), the Cedric Willemen Award (2019) and special recognition from Vordemberge – Gildewart Foundation Award (2020).
She is a laureate from HISK (2018-2020) and a former art resident at SeMA NANJI (2020), the year-long film–writing residency Conversation #4 (CVB, GSARA and Beursschouwburg), CASTRO studio program (2021), WIELS (2021), RU Unlimited New York and Fogo Island Arts (2022). She is co-founder of the distribution and production platform elephy.
Practical information
Dates: Thursday 30 April 2026
Times: 10:00—13:00
Venue: Argos Centre for Audiovisual Arts (rue du Chantier 13, 1000 Brussels)
Tickets: booking is required by sending an email to soundimageculture@gmail.com