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Becoming Landscape is a portrait of Fogo Island, off the Eastern coast of Canada. Eva Giolo approaches the unique environment of the island – human, geological, floral – proposing an indivisibility between landscapes and the bodies that inhabit them. Shot in her distinctly frontal style, a series of 16mm tableaux that hint to the relationship between ob- servation and composition, between seeing and dreaming. As someone reads it in the film, “a landscape is a state of mind”, or more accurately a “state of mind is a landscape.” (Open City Documentary Film Festival)

Eva Giolo is an 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, Festival Internacional de Cine Independiente de La Plata Buenos Aires, Museum of Contemporary Art Antwerp, Kunsthalle Wien,

International Film Festival Rotterdam, Kunstmuseum Den Haag, Media City Film Festival, Viennale,
FIDMarseille, Courtisane Film Festival, Vision du Réel and New York Film Festival among 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 also received the National Award Special Mention at Lago Film Fest 2021, the jury special mention at First Crossings Festival and the Critics’s jury award at 25FPS Festival. 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). Her Films are distributed by elephy and Light Cone.

Becoming Landscape (2024)
16mm scanned to digital file, color, 4:3, English spoken, English subtitles, CA/BE, 2024, 20’

Directed, filmed and edited by Eva Giolo
Produced by elephy
Sound design Simonluca Laitempergher
Colourist Lennert de Taeye
Made with the kind support of Fogo Island Arts

elephy is a Brussels-based production and distribution platform for films and media arts. It supports its productions by providing them with an artist-run professional framework which ensures that they can be made with the greatest artistic freedom. The distribution of elephy works goes beyond festival and cinema-circuits to include museums, art centres, educational and new media contexts. elephy was founded by Rebecca Jane Arthur, Chloë Delanghe, Eva Giolo and Christina Stuhlberger in 2018.