BorGo Cinema intermedia installation: A Cinematic Ritual of Memory and Landscape

Memory is an Animal, It Barks with Many Mouths (23 min, Documentary) – Italy (Artistic, late-slot impact)

October 10, 2025, 15.00

As part of our intermedia explorations in the European Capital of Culture, First Crossings is proud to present Eva Giolo’s profoundly evocative film, Memory Is an Animal, It Barks with Many Mouths, as a dedicated installation. This work transforms the cinematic experience into a contemplative ritual, inviting viewers to immerse themselves in a timeless fable woven from landscape, language, and myth.

Filmed on lush 16mm in the Ladin valleys of the Dolomites, Giolo’s piece is the outcome of intensive research. It follows a group of children as they navigate caves, water, and mountains, re-enacting ancient local legends. Their search for something lost becomes a poetic choreography that connects past and present, giving voice to Ladin—a protected Rhaeto-Romanic language—and to the very geography that holds its memories.

Giolo, an artist known for her focus on the female experience and the materiality of analogue film, employs both documentary and experimental strategies to explore how memory behaves: not as a single record, but as a living, multi-voiced creature—an animal that barks with many mouths.

This installation is a chance to dwell within this beautiful puzzle, to feel the resonance of film grain, and to listen to the echoes of stories that shape a place and its people.