Eva Giolo
2021Giolo obtained her MFA in Fine Arts at the Royal Academy of Arts (KASK), Ghent and her BFA from the Media Arts Department at KASK and Kanazawa College of Art in Japan. She completed her music education at the Institute of Contemporary Music in London.
Flowers blooming in our throats
Eva Giolo
A group of women perform small actions following the artist's instructions that can become a simulation of a violent act. The film is part of the program Mascarilla 19 commissioned and produced by Fondazione In Between Art Film.
Flowers Blooming In Our Throats
Gil
Eva Giolo
At the core of this film, collage is the artist’s search for the face of her deceased twin brother, who died without leaving behind any photographic record. Using archive footages and her own home movies, paradoxically his absence is rendered perceptible through a profusion of images. An indirect portrait is the confirmation of existence.
Gil
Be Good, If You Can't Be Good, Be Good at It Boom Boom Boom Boom
Eva Giolo
BE GOOD, IF YOU CAN’T BE GOOD, BE GOOD AT IT Boom Boom Boom Boom is a publication composed of letters, notes, anecdotes, translations, stills and images: all traces of the creative process. The artists Rebecca Jane Arthur and Eva Giolo bring together their correspondence on the act of writing and of filmmaking, in all its complexity, struggles and playfulness. The letters unpack themes such as the challenge of making personal work and the strength found in sharing vulnerability; the act of writing itself, language and translation; writing on moving images, on their practices and that of others; and the notion of a place as a container of memories, of interiority and the confrontation with home. The publication uses words and texts as images, and all images of persons or things are hidden. The publication acts as a negative to the films that we create, revealing that which cannot be
Be Good, If You Can't Be Good, Be Good at It Boom Boom Boom Boom
Shattered
Eva Giolo
Shattered is a 10-minute-long short movie about the emotional life of her grandmother suffering from Alzheimer. In this movie, the spectator wanders in a silent and desolated house sheltering fragments of an old woman’s life, a woman of lost words and confused gestures. Tenderness and despair.
Shattered
The Taste of Tangerines
Eva Giolo
The Taste of Tangerines paints the portrait of Ocho (Yutakamachiocho) a small in the Seto Inland Sea in Japan. After ten years apart, a grandmother shares her memories of the island with her grandson. The film is both an account of the past and an impression of her daily life. Alternating word and image fragment the film slowly unfold and (re)constructs memories and stories. A search for the present and the past. An observation of that which produce a series of visual haiku.
The Taste of Tangerines
Remote
Eva Giolo
The film transports to a landscape of silence and solitude, alone with the wind, eyes burnt by the light. A place that turns harshness into tenderness. Although television and smartphones help to distract from the monotonous life in a secluded country village, the sense of community and place prevails.
Remote
A Tongue Called Mother
Eva Giolo
A Tongue Called Mother depicts the relationship between language, gestures and affiliation. It slowly captures the actions and words of three generations of women in the same family and children learning to read, meditating on words learnt and forgotten through the body.
A Tongue Called Mother
Study of Gestures_01
Eva Giolo
Study of gestures_01 is a video loop on a TV monitor. Two hands fold meticulously and gently caress a shirt. An exploration of cultural heritage, traces and resurgences through gestures. The evocations of body memory, conscious or unconscious.
Study of Gestures_01
Miniatures
Eva Giolo
Miniatures explore the notion of domestic spaces and memory through the filmmaker’s family archive. A legacy of 15 years of Super8 and VHS that documents the family’s history and daily life. A cross-portrait of three generations and their very own experiences of reverie and memory.
Miniatures
