John Gianvito
Filmmaker from the United States

John Gianvito

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Filmmaker from the United States
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Birth:
7 April 1939
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Aries
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John Gianvito is an American filmmaker, film curator, academic and movie critic.

Background

Gianvito attended the California Institute of the Arts where he earned a BFA, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he earned a MS.

He has worked as a curator with the Harvard Film Archive, and is currently an associate professor with the Department of Visual and Media Arts at Emerson College.

Filmography

A partial list of the films by John Gianvito:

  • The Direct Approach (1978, short film)
  • The Flower of Pain (1983)
  • Address Unknown (1985, co-directed)
  • What Nobody Saw (1990, short)
  • The Mad Songs of Fernanda Hussein (2001)
  • Puncture Wounds [September 11] (2002, short film)
  • Profit Motive and the Whispering Wind (2007, short documentary)
  • Vapor Trail (Clark) (2010)
  • Far From Afghanistan (2012, co-directed, documentary)
  • Wake (Subic) (2015, documentary)
  • Her Socialist Smile (2020, documentary)

Published works

  • Gianvito, John (2006). Andrei Tarkovsky. University Press of Mississippi. p. 3. ISBN 1-57806-220-9. {{cite book}}: |work= ignored (help)