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John Gianvito

John Gianvito

Biography

John Gianvito is an independent film director based in Boston, where he also holds an Associate Professorship in the Department of Visual and Media Arts at Emerson College. He has taught at numerous major universities in New England and currently sits on the Board of Directors for the Robert Flaherty International Film Seminar. His extensive curatorial work also includes a five-year appointment as Film Programmer at the Harvard Film Archive. He made his debut as a director in 1978 with his short film The Direct Approach and rose to prominence with the subsequent feature The Flower of Pain (1983), a semi-autobiographical film about an adolescent relationship structured as a series of fragments, or “shards of memory” in Gianvito’s words. Commenting on the film to the Viennale, Gianvito described his attempt at “stripping away as much personal anecdotal material as possible, and concentrating on uncovering within each scene the disruptions, the unconscious and conscious mistakes.” Most recently, Gianvito has made Vapor Trail (Clark) which had its world premiere at International Film Festival Rotterdam in 2010. That same year, his documentary Profit Motive and the Whispering Wind (2007), inspired by Howard Zinn’s famous tome A People’s History of the United States, was named one of the fifty greatest documentaries of all time by Time Out New York. For his extraordinary and unique contributions to cinema, Gianvito received the French honorary title of Knight in the Order of Art and Letters in 2001. – Wen Zhuang

Personal Info

Gender

Male

Birthday

1956-01-01

Place of Birth

Staten Island, New York, USA

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The Mad Songs of Fernanda Hussein

The Mad Songs of Fernanda Hussein

20015.6 / 10

The Flower of Pain

The Flower of Pain

19830.0 / 10

Profit Motive and the Whispering Wind

Profit Motive and the Whispering Wind

20086.4 / 10

My Heart Swims in Blood

My Heart Swims in Blood

20110.0 / 10

The Mad Songs of Fernanda Hussein

The Mad Songs of Fernanda Hussein

20015.6 / 10

Far from Afghanistan

Far from Afghanistan

20125.3 / 10

Vapor Trail (Clark)

Vapor Trail (Clark)

20105.2 / 10

Her Socialist Smile

Her Socialist Smile

20205.0 / 10

Wake (Subic)

Wake (Subic)

20156.0 / 10

What Nobody Saw

What Nobody Saw

19900.0 / 10

Puncture Wounds (September 11)

Puncture Wounds (September 11)

20080.0 / 10

The Grave's Sky

The Grave's Sky

20230.0 / 10

Fugue

Fugue

20230.0 / 10

Mission Hill

Mission Hill

TBA0.0 / 10

The Flower of Pain

The Flower of Pain

19830.0 / 10

Address Unknown

Address Unknown

19860.0 / 10