{"id":79,"date":"2008-08-26T22:41:24","date_gmt":"2008-08-27T04:41:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.saic.edu\/cate\/?p=79"},"modified":"2025-01-10T08:23:09","modified_gmt":"2025-01-10T14:23:09","slug":"sep-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/2008\/08\/26\/sep-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Profit Motive and the Whispering Wind"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t<span style=\"font-weight:normal\"><strong>Thursday, September 4, 6pm<\/strong> | <\/span><em>John Gianvito in person!<\/em><\/p>\n<address>\n<dl>\n<dt><a href=\"http:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/100\/2009\/05\/gianvito_profitmotive450.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1477\" src=\"http:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/100\/2009\/05\/gianvito_profitmotive450.jpg\" alt=\"John Gianvito, Profit Motive and the Whispering Wind (2007). Image courtesy of the artist.\" width=\"450\" height=\"350\" \/><\/a><\/dt>\n<dd><em>John Gianvito, Profit Motive and the Whispering Wind (2007). Image courtesy of the artist.<\/em><\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n<\/address>\n<p>Inspired by Howard Zinn\u2019s\u00a0<em>A People\u2019s History of the United States<\/em><span>,\u00a0<span><em>Profit Motive and the Whispering Wind<\/em><strong> <\/strong><\/span>is a quietly stunning memorial to the lives of America\u2019s radicals, rebels, and everyday freethinkers from colonial times to the present. Filmmaker John Gianvito traveled the country for three years, filming the forgotten landscapes that once served as stages for our nation\u2019s uprisings, rebellions, and strikes, as well as the burial sites of political firebrands like Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Eugene V. Debs, Emma Goldman, Malcolm X, and C\u00e9sar Ch\u00e1vez. Weaving his compositions into a poignant visual history of capitalism\u2019s discontents, Gianvito elegantly reminds us of America\u2019s roots in idealism and dissent. Accompanied by Hope Tucker\u2019s\u00a0<em><span>Bessie Cohen, Survivor of 1911 Shirtwaist Fire<\/span><\/em> (2000)<em>. <\/em><span>Co-presented by the Chicago Cinema Forum.<\/span><\/span> 2007, John Gianvito, USA, DigiBeta video, 58 min.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><strong>John Gianvito<\/strong> is a filmmaker, curator, and teacher based in Boston, Massachusetts. Born in Staten Island, New York, he studied with directors Alexander Mackendrick and Don Levy at the California Institute of the Arts where he received his BFA in Film\/Video, and received a Master of Science in Visual Studies degree at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology where he studied with, and eventually co-taught alongside documentary filmmaker Richard Leacock. As a film curator, he served for five years as the film programmer for the Harvard Film Archive and is currently film curator for the List Visual Arts Center at MIT.\u00a0 In 2001, he was made a Chevalier in the Order of Arts and Letters by the French Ministry of Culture. Gianvito is currently Assistant Professor in the Department of Visual and Media Arts at Emerson College.\u00a0 His writing has appeared in <em>Film Quarterly<\/em>, <em>CinemaScope,<\/em> <em>Undercurrent<\/em>, <em>International Documentary<\/em>, and elsewhere. He is the editor of the book, <em>Andrei Tarkovsky: Interviews<\/em> (University Press of Mississippi, 2006).<\/p>\n<p><strong>More<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cinema-scope.com\/cs32\/int_sicinski_gianvito.html\">Michael Sicinski on Profit Motive and the Whispering Wind (CinemaScope)<\/a>\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thursday, September 4, 6pm | John Gianvito in person! John Gianvito, Profit Motive and the Whispering Wind (2007). Image courtesy of the artist. Inspired by Howard Zinn\u2019s\u00a0A People\u2019s History of the United States,\u00a0Profit Motive and the Whispering Wind is a quietly stunning memorial to the lives of America\u2019s radicals, rebels, and everyday freethinkers from colonial [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"btn btn-secondary understrap-read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/2008\/08\/26\/sep-4\/\">Read More&#8230;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> from Profit Motive and the Whispering Wind<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":198,"featured_media":1477,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[450,476,615],"class_list":["post-79","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-13","tag-non-fiction","tag-political","tag-usa"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/198"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8742,"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79\/revisions\/8742"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1477"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}