John Gianvito Movies

  • 2001
    The Mad Songs of Fernanda Hussein

    The Mad Songs of Fernanda Hussein

    The Mad Songs of Fernanda Hussein

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    A cri de coeur against Iraq War I from writer-director John Gianvito (Profit Motive and the Whispering Wind).

    The Mad Songs of Fernanda Hussein
  • 2008
    Profit Motive and the Whispering Wind

    Profit Motive and the Whispering Wind

    Profit Motive and the Whispering Wind

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    A visual essay about the progressive tradition of the United States as seen through grave markers and monuments.

    Profit Motive and the Whispering Wind
  • 2020
    Her Socialist Smile

    Her Socialist Smile

    Her Socialist Smile

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    The memory of a particular moment in early 20th century history when, in 1913, Helen Keller (1880-1968), a deaf-blind writer, lecturer and political...

    Her Socialist Smile
  • 2015
    Wake (Subic)

    Wake (Subic)

    Wake (Subic)

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    First begun in 2006, WAKE (SUBIC) completes the documentary diptych, FOR EXAMPLE, THE PHILIPPINES, the first part of which, VAPOR TRAIL (CLARK)...

    Wake (Subic)
  • 2012
    Far from Afghanistan

    Far from Afghanistan

    Far from Afghanistan

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    Taking inspiration from the collaborative 1967 militant anthology film Far from Vietnam, five of the boldest and most prominent American militant...

    Far from Afghanistan
  • 1983
    The Flower of Pain

    The Flower of Pain

    The Flower of Pain

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    A semi-autobiographical film about an adolescent relationship, about emotional illiterates of a particular age and milieu. Structured as a series of...

    The Flower of Pain
  • 2008
    Puncture Wounds (September 11)

    Puncture Wounds (September 11)

    Puncture Wounds (September 11)

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    On September 11th, 2001, the security bubble, within which so many Americans live, was violently perforated and, at least for a moment, the air, the...

    Puncture Wounds (September 11)
  • 1990
    What Nobody Saw

    What Nobody Saw

    What Nobody Saw

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    Three 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...

    What Nobody Saw
  • 2023
    Fugue

    Fugue

    Fugue

    02023HD

    A man hikes through late-winter woods. Russia invades Ukraine. It’s difficult to reconcile the scales of action described by those sentences,...

    Fugue
  • 2010
    Vapor Trail (Clark)

    Vapor Trail (Clark)

    Vapor Trail (Clark)

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    An investigation into the ecological disaster caused by a US military base on the Philippines – and its victims, their world. A humble act of...

    Vapor Trail (Clark)
  • 2023
    The Grave's Sky

    The Grave's Sky

    The Grave's Sky

    02023HD

    Rotterdam regular John Gianvito (Vapor Trail (Clark), IFFR 2010) checks in with a sensitive, homebound film diary recorded in the pandemic years...

    The Grave's Sky
  • 1970
    Mission Hill

    Mission Hill

    Mission Hill

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    a short meditation on the student residency of Boston’s historic Mission Hill neighborhood.

    Mission Hill
  • 2011
    My Heart Swims in Blood

    My Heart Swims in Blood

    My Heart Swims in Blood

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    While Afghanistan burns, America fiddles…John Gianvito’s film is a mosaical journey through a dark night of the soul. As fog descends...

    My Heart Swims in Blood
  • 1986
    Address Unknown

    Address Unknown

    Address Unknown

    01986HD

    Five «cinematographic letters» by five filmmakers addressed to individuals with whom it was impossible to correspond in real life. Filmed...

    Address Unknown