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Giovanni Giaretta

Giovanni GIARETTA (1983, Italy) is an artist and filmmaker. He was educated in Visual Arts Production Design in Venice and holds a BA in Didactics of Arts. His work and his films have been shown throughout Europe, at festivals such as International Film Festival Rotterdam, IDFA and the New Horizons International Film Festival in Poland. Giaretta lives and works in Amsterdam.

Filmography

(selection, all short) An Inaccurate Distance (2014), A Thing Among Things (2016), The Sailor (2017), The Nightshift (2018), La casa (ostinato crescendo) (2018), Words Words Words Are Decorative Sounds (2020)

Giovanni Giaretta at IFFR

  • Words Words Words Are Decorative Sounds

    Artist’s recollection of learning English. Words, memories and images merge with artificial landscapes, as natural and unsettling as a dream.

    • Bright Future Short

  • The Sailor

    A sailor dreams of a homeland he has never had. This video deals with the notion of what we call ‘home’.

    • Bright Future Short

  • An Inaccurate Distance

    Bertani is a traveller of the mind, more than the body. He writes in more than 100 languages, but hardly ever leaves his home. Language is his gateway

    • Voices
    • Voices Short

  • A Thing Among Things

    This video combines a collection of the visual memories of a blind person with close-ups of transparent minerals. These work almost as a set design, o

    • Bright Future
    • Bright Future Short