The Mad Songs of Fernanda Hussein
Oct 04, 2001A cri de coeur against Iraq War I from writer-director John Gianvito (Profit Motive and the Whispering Wind).
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John Gianvito
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The Flower of Pain
Jan 01, 1983A semi-autobiographical film about an adolescent relationship, about emotional illiterates of a particular age and milieu. Structured as a series of fragments – so called “shards of memory” – the film follows the progressive dissolution of the affair in search for clues to its undoing.
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Profit Motive and the Whispering Wind
Aug 01, 2008A visual essay about the progressive tradition of the United States as seen through grave markers and monuments.
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My Heart Swims in Blood
Jan 01, 2011While Afghanistan burns, America fiddles…John Gianvito’s film is a mosaical journey through a dark night of the soul. As fog descends upon the landscape, a man attempts to lull himself to sleep. Across the nation, Americans embrace their pleasures. 7000 miles away U.S. and coalition forces leave behind a trail of death, destruction, and profound resentment among many of the people of Afghanistan. Business as usual. A tirade and indictment against a decade of slaughter and occupation, and the “fruits” of American exceptionalism. With André Gregory.
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The Mad Songs of Fernanda Hussein
Oct 04, 2001A cri de coeur against Iraq War I from writer-director John Gianvito (Profit Motive and the Whispering Wind).
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The Mad Songs of Fernanda Hussein
Oct 04, 2001A cri de coeur against Iraq War I from writer-director John Gianvito (Profit Motive and the Whispering Wind).
Drama
The Mad Songs of Fernanda Hussein
Oct 04, 2001A cri de coeur against Iraq War I from writer-director John Gianvito (Profit Motive and the Whispering Wind).
Drama
The Mad Songs of Fernanda Hussein
Oct 04, 2001A cri de coeur against Iraq War I from writer-director John Gianvito (Profit Motive and the Whispering Wind).
Drama
Far from Afghanistan
Aug 22, 2012Taking inspiration from the collaborative 1967 militant anthology film Far from Vietnam, five of the boldest and most prominent American militant filmmakers unite to create this searing (and seething) omnibus work, employing a variety of approaches to reveal the hidden costs of the United States' (and Canada's) most expensive and longest-running war. (TIFF)
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Vapor Trail (Clark)
Jan 30, 2010An investigation into the ecological disaster caused by a US military base on the Philippines – and its victims, their world. A humble act of solidarity, a defiant work of remembrance, a rallying cry to rise and resist, a cinematic prose poem.
Her Socialist Smile
Sep 18, 2020The memory of a particular moment in early 20th century history when, in 1913, Helen Keller (1880-1968), a deaf-blind writer, lecturer and political activist, spoke, for the first time and in public, about socialism and progressive causes.
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Her Socialist Smile
Sep 18, 2020The memory of a particular moment in early 20th century history when, in 1913, Helen Keller (1880-1968), a deaf-blind writer, lecturer and political activist, spoke, for the first time and in public, about socialism and progressive causes.
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Wake (Subic)
Oct 22, 2015The memory of a particular moment in early 20th century history when, in 1913, Helen Keller (1880-1968), a deaf-blind writer, lecturer and political activist, spoke, for the first time and in public, about socialism and progressive causes.
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Puncture Wounds (September 11)
Jan 01, 2008On September 11th, 2001, the security bubble, within which so many Americans live, was violently perforated and, at least for a moment, the air, the heart, the eye was pierced by the rageful acts of the discontented, soon supplanted by the vengeful ax of the U.S. response. This video is an imagistic evocation of the climate (emotional and otherwise) of this time.
What Nobody Saw
Jan 01, 1990Three figures - man, woman, child - roam the grounds of a State Mental Hospital, a kind of hell on earth, looking for each other or for a supreme witness to their loneliness. A visual poem with voices off.
Puncture Wounds (September 11)
Jan 01, 2008On September 11th, 2001, the security bubble, within which so many Americans live, was violently perforated and, at least for a moment, the air, the heart, the eye was pierced by the rageful acts of the discontented, soon supplanted by the vengeful ax of the U.S. response. This video is an imagistic evocation of the climate (emotional and otherwise) of this time.
The Grave's Sky
Jan 25, 2023Rotterdam regular John Gianvito (Vapor Trail (Clark), IFFR 2010) checks in with a sensitive, homebound film diary recorded in the pandemic years 2020-2022. The watchful, wary stance of deer outside his house triggers a series of fragments associated with death, burial, mourning and care: Gianvito calls it 'a requiem'. Snatches of classic soundtracks (including Renoir's Partiede campagne, 1936) and glimpses of news broadcasts expand the private, intimate context.
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Fugue
Jun 05, 2023A man hikes through late-winter woods. Russia invades Ukraine. It’s difficult to reconcile the scales of action described by those sentences, but this difficulty is what John Gianvito dwells on in his new video. It may simply be that this is a diary, movingly plain and provisional in construction, which recounts what its author did for a few months last year: he watched a war on the internet and went outside. Even if that’s true, such a description makes Gianvito’s images seem less strange than they are
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Mission Hill
Jan 01, 1970a short meditation on the student residency of Boston’s historic Mission Hill neighborhood.
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Her Socialist Smile
Sep 18, 2020The memory of a particular moment in early 20th century history when, in 1913, Helen Keller (1880-1968), a deaf-blind writer, lecturer and political activist, spoke, for the first time and in public, about socialism and progressive causes.
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Profit Motive and the Whispering Wind
Aug 01, 2008A visual essay about the progressive tradition of the United States as seen through grave markers and monuments.
Documentary
Profit Motive and the Whispering Wind
Aug 01, 2008A visual essay about the progressive tradition of the United States as seen through grave markers and monuments.
Documentary
Profit Motive and the Whispering Wind
Aug 01, 2008A visual essay about the progressive tradition of the United States as seen through grave markers and monuments.
Documentary
Profit Motive and the Whispering Wind
Aug 01, 2008A visual essay about the progressive tradition of the United States as seen through grave markers and monuments.
Documentary
Profit Motive and the Whispering Wind
Aug 01, 2008A visual essay about the progressive tradition of the United States as seen through grave markers and monuments.
Documentary
Profit Motive and the Whispering Wind
Aug 01, 2008A visual essay about the progressive tradition of the United States as seen through grave markers and monuments.
Documentary
The Flower of Pain
Jan 01, 1983A semi-autobiographical film about an adolescent relationship, about emotional illiterates of a particular age and milieu. Structured as a series of fragments – so called “shards of memory” – the film follows the progressive dissolution of the affair in search for clues to its undoing.
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The Flower of Pain
Jan 01, 1983A semi-autobiographical film about an adolescent relationship, about emotional illiterates of a particular age and milieu. Structured as a series of fragments – so called “shards of memory” – the film follows the progressive dissolution of the affair in search for clues to its undoing.
Drama
The Flower of Pain
Jan 01, 1983A semi-autobiographical film about an adolescent relationship, about emotional illiterates of a particular age and milieu. Structured as a series of fragments – so called “shards of memory” – the film follows the progressive dissolution of the affair in search for clues to its undoing.
Drama
The Flower of Pain
Jan 01, 1983A semi-autobiographical film about an adolescent relationship, about emotional illiterates of a particular age and milieu. Structured as a series of fragments – so called “shards of memory” – the film follows the progressive dissolution of the affair in search for clues to its undoing.
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Address Unknown
Jan 01, 1986Five «cinematographic letters» by five filmmakers addressed to individuals with whom it was impossible to correspond in real life. Filmed in a combination of Super-8, video and 16mm in New York, Boston, San Francisco, and Montreal, the five episodes are, Letter to an Unborn Child, Letter to a Romantic Ideal, Letter to an Innocent Victim, Letter to a Suicide, and Letter to the Unknown.
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The Flower of Pain
Jan 01, 1983A semi-autobiographical film about an adolescent relationship, about emotional illiterates of a particular age and milieu. Structured as a series of fragments – so called “shards of memory” – the film follows the progressive dissolution of the affair in search for clues to its undoing.
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