John GIANVITO
Asian premiere
A requiem for all those swept away in the wake of the Covid-19. Beginning during the initial months of lockdown, John Gianvito shot this short film piecemeal and in isolation.
The Grave¡¯s Sky covers the aftermath of the pandemic in a unique way. This essay film was made with footage filmed by the film director John Gianvito at his home throughout the lockdown from 2020 to 2022. The film is dominated by an atmosphere of isolation, anxiety, uncertainty, heaviness, and lament, and Gianvito appears as a recluse in the forest. The cameras are placed around the bed, desk, and doors to capture the moment of isolation, where only plants and animals are the only neighbors. The scenes deliver bizarre tranquility, and they are the meditation of Gianvito for the era when contact is banned instead of predation or attack.
John GIANVITO
Born in Staten Island, New York, John Gianvito is a filmmaker and Professor in the Department of Visual & Media Arts at Emerson College in Boston, Massachusetts. Retrospectives of his work have been presented at the Vienalle Film Festival, the I Mille Occhi Festival, Cinéma du Réel, and Seoul Independent Documentary Festival.