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Aug 1, 2008 · Profit Motive and the Whispering Wind: Directed by John Gianvito. 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".
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- Documentary, History
- John Gianvito
- 2008-08-01
Profit Motive and the Whispering Wind 2007 58m Documentary List 92% Tomatometer 13 Reviews 55% Audience Score 100+ Ratings Cemetery plaques and markers give a progressive history of the United...
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- Documentary
- John Gianvito
Jun 12, 2008 · Profit Motive and the Whispering Wind. Beneath the meditative procession of sites, John Gianvito layers an anxiety built into most viewers’ gaps in 17th-to-20th-century U.S. history.
A tour of the United States’ progressive history, loosely inspired by Howard Zinn’s ‘A People’s History of the United States,’ visiting the resting places of such famed figures as Malcolm X, Susan B. Anthony and Crazy Horse, alongside sites of pivotal struggles, such as the 1770 Boston Massacre.
Profit Motive and the Whispering Wind is John Gianvito's homage to the heterodox historical actors roughly composing the American left for the past four hundred years.
PROFIT MOTIVE AND THE WHISPERING WIND is a visual meditation on the progressive history of the United States as seen through cemeteries, historic plaques and markers.
Synopsis. Consisting almost entirely of simple shots of grave sites and public shrines, and progressing through American history from colonial times to the present, the documentary is a monument to monuments, and a call to arms.
