Profit Motive and the Whispering Wind

Synopsis

A visual meditation on the progressive history of the United States as seen through cemeteries, historic plaques and markers. Inspired by Howard Zinn’s “A People’s History of the United States.

Director Biography

John Gianvito is a filmmaker, teacher, and curator based in Boston. Retrospectives of his work have included at the VIENNALE Film Festival in Austria, I Mille Occhi Festival in Trieste, Italy and the Cinema du Reel Festival in Paris, France. He is the editor of the book Andrei Tarkovsky: Interviews (University Press of Mississippi). In 2012, Gianvito’s latest film, the collectively-made Far From Afghanistan, received its world premiere at the Locarno Film Festival in Switzerland.