Wed September 25, 2013
Profit motive and the whispering wind, John Gianvito (U.S., 2007)
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at Pacific Film Archive (PFA) Theater
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In Person/John Gianvito
In his landmark A People’s History of the United States, historian Howard Zinn toppled the conventions of top-down historiography by focusing on those whose voices are rarely heard. John Gianvito, inspired by Zinn, creates his own unique testament, a minimalist memorial to America’s radicals and freethinkers. A film of poetic simplicity, Profit motive uses a mostly still camera and ambient sound to contemplate a series of gravestones and historical markers memorializing people who fought daringly and selflessly for social equality and justice. The graves of John Brown, Sojourner Truth, César Chávez, and others mark a picturesque yet somber travelogue through American history.
—Joshua Moore, SFIFF
• (58 mins, Color, Digital video, From the artist)
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In his landmark A People’s History of the United States, historian Howard Zinn toppled the conventions of top-down historiography by focusing on those whose voices are rarely heard. John Gianvito, inspired by Zinn, creates his own unique testament, a minimalist memorial to America’s radicals and freethinkers. A film of poetic simplicity, Profit motive uses a mostly still camera and ambient sound to contemplate a series of gravestones and historical markers memorializing people who fought daringly and selflessly for social equality and justice. The graves of John Brown, Sojourner Truth, César Chávez, and others mark a picturesque yet somber travelogue through American history.
—Joshua Moore, SFIFF
• (58 mins, Color, Digital video, From the artist)
In Person/John Gianvito
In his landmark A People’s History of the United States, historian Howard Zinn toppled the conventions of top-down historiography by focusing on those whose voices are rarely heard. John Gianvito, inspired by Zinn, creates his own unique testament, a minimalist memorial to America’s radicals and freethinkers. A film of poetic simplicity, Profit motive uses a mostly still camera and ambient sound to contemplate a series of gravestones and historical markers memorializing people who fought daringly and selflessly for social equality and justice. The graves of John Brown, Sojourner Truth, César Chávez, and others mark a picturesque yet somber travelogue through American history.
—Joshua Moore, SFIFF
• (58 mins, Color, Digital video, From the artist)
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In his landmark A People’s History of the United States, historian Howard Zinn toppled the conventions of top-down historiography by focusing on those whose voices are rarely heard. John Gianvito, inspired by Zinn, creates his own unique testament, a minimalist memorial to America’s radicals and freethinkers. A film of poetic simplicity, Profit motive uses a mostly still camera and ambient sound to contemplate a series of gravestones and historical markers memorializing people who fought daringly and selflessly for social equality and justice. The graves of John Brown, Sojourner Truth, César Chávez, and others mark a picturesque yet somber travelogue through American history.
—Joshua Moore, SFIFF
• (58 mins, Color, Digital video, From the artist)
show less
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Pacific Film Archive (PFA) Theater
2575 Bancroft Way, Berkeley, CA 94720
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