The Demands of Ordinary Devotion

In many languages you don’t “shoot” a film, you “turn” it (for example, tourner, girare or drehen). Eva Giolo’s latest short, a 16mm poem, explores the beauty of this turning. In her associative collage of similarities, she combines circular shapes and movements connecting a mother and her baby, a camera, flowers, smiles, fruits and handicraft. Her turning also becomes a movement towards the gestures she films as she shows the loving and sensual intimacy of the work of care. It’s a bewitching celebration of life and cinema hand in hand. With every shot, the world turns one more time. (Patrick Holzapfel)

This film will be shown as part of the screening SHORT FILM PROGRAMME 5: ORDINARY DEVOTIONS.