Seminar: Solaris
Join Emerson College professor, filmmaker, curator, and critic John Gianvito for an introduction to Andrei Tarkovsky's brilliantly original science-fiction epic.
About the Speaker
Emerson College Professor John Gianvito is a filmmaker, curator, and critic. His films include the feature films The Flower of Pain, Address Unknown, and The Mad Songs of Fernanda Hussein, winner of multiple awards including having been cited as one of the top ten films of the year by critics in The Chicago Reader, The Boston Phoenix, and Film Comment magazine. He is the editor of the book Andrei Tarkovsky: Interviews (University Press of Mississippi).
Prof. Gianvito has taught film production and film history at the University of Massachusetts Boston, Rhode Island School of Design, and Boston University, and was film curator for five years at the Harvard Film Archive. In 2001, he was made a Chevalier in the Order of Arts and Letters by the French Ministry of Culture.
