John Gianvito Movies
- 2020
Her Socialist Smile
Her Socialist Smile52020HD
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...
- 2008
Profit Motive and the Whispering Wind
Profit Motive and the Whispering Wind6.42008HD
A visual essay about the progressive tradition of the United States as seen through grave markers and monuments.
- 1983
The Flower of Pain
The Flower of Pain01983HD
A semi-autobiographical film about an adolescent relationship, about emotional illiterates of a particular age and milieu. Structured as a series of...
- 2015
Wake (Subic)
Wake (Subic)62015HD
First begun in 2006, WAKE (SUBIC) completes the documentary diptych, FOR EXAMPLE, THE PHILIPPINES, the first part of which, VAPOR TRAIL (CLARK)...
- 2023
Fugue
Fugue02023HD
A man hikes through late-winter woods. Russia invades Ukraine. It’s difficult to reconcile the scales of action described by those sentences,...
- 2023
The Grave's Sky
The Grave's Sky02023HD
Rotterdam regular John Gianvito (Vapor Trail (Clark), IFFR 2010) checks in with a sensitive, homebound film diary recorded in the pandemic years...
- 2001
The Mad Songs of Fernanda Hussein
The Mad Songs of Fernanda Hussein5.62001HD
A cri de coeur against Iraq War I from writer-director John Gianvito (Profit Motive and the Whispering Wind).
- 2010
Vapor Trail (Clark)
Vapor Trail (Clark)5.22010HD
An investigation into the ecological disaster caused by a US military base on the Philippines – and its victims, their world. A humble act of...
- 1970
Mission Hill
Mission Hill01970HD
a short meditation on the student residency of Boston’s historic Mission Hill neighborhood.
- 1990
What Nobody Saw
What Nobody Saw01990HD
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...
- 2012
Far from Afghanistan
Far from Afghanistan5.32012HD
Taking inspiration from the collaborative 1967 militant anthology film Far from Vietnam, five of the boldest and most prominent American militant...
- 2008
Puncture Wounds (September 11)
Puncture Wounds (September 11)02008HD
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...
- 2011
My Heart Swims in Blood
My Heart Swims in Blood02011HD
While Afghanistan burns, America fiddles…John Gianvito’s film is a mosaical journey through a dark night of the soul. As fog descends...
- 1986
Address Unknown
Address Unknown01986HD
Five «cinematographic letters» by five filmmakers addressed to individuals with whom it was impossible to correspond in real life. Filmed...