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 op IFFR
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Words Words Words Are Decorative Sounds
Giovanni Giaretta | 8' | Italy | World premiere
Artist’s recollection of learning English. Words, memories and images merge with artificial landscapes, as natural and unsettling as a dream. -
The Sailor
Giovanni Giaretta | 9' | Italy | World premiere
A sailor dreams of a homeland he has never had. This video deals with the notion of what we call ‘home’. -
An Inaccurate Distance
Giovanni Giaretta | 15' | Italy | None
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… -
A Thing Among Things
Giovanni Giaretta | 7' | Italy | World premiere
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,…