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THE DEMANDS OF ORDINARY DEVOTION

Eva Giolo
Italy/Belgium, 2022
12 min

A film on motherhood and creation constructed through various visual metaphors of circularity, The Demands of Ordinary Devotion speaks in a playful, yet lucid manner about the elusive link between care work and creative work.

By creating a kind of shared gestural materiality, The Demands of Ordinary Devotion observes that the maternal and artistic processes are similar in their search for being, balance and unity. Both are deeply motivated by devotion, their achievement determined by the performance of care and kindness. Visual metaphors about circularity are joined by a suite of symbols indicating fertility, chance or care, semiotically indicating the maternal and creative experience. Affective work, just like creative work, is enabled by touch, the hand representing an interface for the transposition of care. (Emilian Lungu)

Date and Location

27th of September, 18:30, Cinemateca Eforie

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Eva Giolo

Eva Giolo is an artist working across film, video, and installation. Her work has been exhibited at Sadie Coles HQ, Harlan Levey Project, WIELS centre for Contemporary Art, MAXXI–National Museum of 21st Century Art, Kunstmuseum Den Haag, BOZAR Centre for Fine Arts, Palazzo Strozz, Museum of Contemporary Art Antwerp, Kunsthalle Wien, and major film festivals like International Film Festival Rotterdam, Viennale, FIDMarseille, Cinéma du Réel among others. She is a founding member of the production and distribution platform elephy. Her filmography includes: Shattered (2014), Remote (2016), Gil (2016), Elisabeth (2018), A Tongue Called Mother (2019), The Taste of Tangerines (2019), Study of Gestures_01 (2019), Flowers blooming in our throats (2020).

  • Technical sheet
  • CAMERA / EDITING / PRODUCTION: EVA GIOLO
  • SOUND DESIGN: Simonluca Laitempergher
  • COLOURIST: Lennert de Taeye
  • CAMERA ASSISTANT: Eva Claus
  • ASSISTANTS: Anouk Chambaz, Gadea Burgaz, Antonio Perticara
  • TEXT: Lao Tzu: Tao Te Ching: A Book about the Way and the Power of the Way, trans Ursula K. Le Guin, Boston: Shambhala, 2008.

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