The long memory is the MOST radical idea in America. Claire Spark Loeb.
I must confess that until the Gijón Film Festival in 2008 premiered the documentary experimental teacher American filmmaker John Gianvito, had only seen his name on the list of 1000 best movies in film history, by Jonhatan Rosenbaum. Gianvito appeared on this list with your first and last film The mad song of Fernanda Hussein (2003).
Lasting just 1 hour with The profit motive and the Wispering wind, John Gianvito invites us to make a historical journey, chronological visiting graves, monuments, tombstones, statues, belonging to activists linked progressive movements of the U.S.. USA: Fight for the rights of women, immigrants, African Americans, Latinos. Gianvito films these places with your camera 16 mm with respect and patience, no voiceover to guide visitors to the cemeteries, the only information comes from the inscriptions on the monuments fúnebres.Un respect Srtaub reminiscent of the texts they choose.
From the tomb of Anne Marbury Hutchiman (1591-1643) to Dorothy Day (1897-1980). Gianvito focuses on 500 years of America's recent history, which took as starting the book of A people history of the United Sates of Howard Zinn.
chorus as if it were a filmmaker, sandwiched between tomb and tomb, a series of images of nature: leaves of trees buffeted by the wind, the sun through the branches. These images create a beautiful and poetic impact, the camera views from the solemenidad of the gravestones, to the branches and treetops that are flapping in the wind.
Believe it or not, there is life beyond death. Even in a more materialistic level, there is an energy in the soil and trees, is a spiritual cycle that connects the images of the wind with the stones of the graves (1) .
And is that John Gianvito's proposal has many similarities to the cinema of Straub, Trop tôt, trop later (1982) and Forti / Cani (1976) in which may sensitize the viewer and direct their attention to what happens in a piece of nature whose story is captured transversely [...] that show the history of our century and its massacres (2).
The idea of \u200b\u200bcircularity deriving energy just in the last few minutes in a climax, on the basis of documentary montage of demonstrations outside today, to the rhythm of percussion, against war, against terrorism. Gianvito seems to say that the rights and freedoms we enjoy now, we owe to all those activists and heroes who fought for them. This exercise of historical memory Gianvito are not didactic but that seems to share the epitaph of the Emma Goldman's grave "Liberty Will Not descend to people, to raise Themselves Must people to liberty.
1. Interview with Fernando G. Varea http://espaciocine.wordpress.com/2008 / 12/24/john-gianvito /
2. Aumont Jacques, theories filmmakers, film Paidós Communication 155. Pag 83 
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