Gianvito’s portrait of Keller can be seen as a continuation and expansion of his PROFIT MOTIVE AND THE WHISPERING WIND, which recalled certain protagonists of the progressive movement in the US, inspired by historian Howard Zinn.

Helen Keller became both blind and deaf as a child. The film follows some of her most important public appearances and comments, starting with her speech “Out of the Dark” (1913). Gianvito’s narrative visual style has an almost elemental quality, when he crossfades voiceovers and silent written text passages by Keller with ever shifting close-ups of the structure of snowy boughs, ice or timber. It’s another highly idiosyncratic work of poetry, didactics, and agitprop at the service of a bottom-up view of history, at once an appreciation and analysis of Keller’s theses on capitalism. It’s no spoiler to say that they are just as valid 100 years on. (Gunnar Landsgesell)

3.31GB | 2h 30mn | 1024×576 | mkv

https://nitro.download/view/062380FA3A2997C/Her.Socialist.Smile.John.Gianvito.2020.1080p.mkv

Language:English
Subtitles:None

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Self-funded, 16 mm and six years in the making, this politically-engaged, heartfelt and pantheistic three-hour exploration of American responses to the Gulf War is effectively unique in its decision to commit this conflict to celluloid. Written and directed by John Gianvito, programmer of the Harvard Film Archive, it weaves three fictional strands alongside documentary footage, interviews and a singular concert performance to create a multi-stranded, many-layered text that is fueled as much by (focused) anger as it is by the prerogatives of aesthetics.

Bonus Feature
Full performance by Naseer Shamma (22:40)

2.71GB | 2 h 48 min | 712×534 | mkv

https://nitro.download/view/81FA244476E2FF2/The_Mad_Songs_of_Fernanda_Hussein_(2001).mkv
https://nitro.download/view/8AF001F39A5057C/Naseer_Shamma_Performance.mkv

Language(s):English
Subtitles:None

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An investigation into the ecological disaster caused by a US military base on the Philippines – and its victims, their world. A humble act of solidarity, a defiant work of remembrance, a rallying cry to rise and resist, a cinematic prose poem.

3.84GB | 4h 25m | 849×478 | mkv

https://nitroflare.com/view/89B7249DD34A9A5/Vapor.Trail.%28Clark%29.-.Part.1.2010.DVD.AC3.2.0.x264-SaL.mkv
https://nitroflare.com/view/891698D807A737A/Vapor.Trail.%28Clark%29.-.Part.2.2010.DVD.AC3.2.0.x264-SaL.mkv
https://nitro.download/view/4F1BE25FE3EAA1B/Vapor.Trail.(Clark).-.Part.3.2010.DVD.AC3.2.0.x264-SaL.mkv

Language(s):English + Tagalog
Subtitles:English (Hardcoded)

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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”.

0.99GB | 57m 36s | 960×576 | mkv

https://nitro.download/view/29A6610923C2DB7/Profit.Motive.and.the.Whispering.Wind.2007.576p.mkv
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https://tezfiles.com/file/0151a19610a6e/Profit.Motive.and.the.Whispering.Wind.2007.576p.mp4

Language(s):English
Subtitles:English, French, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish, German

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