If we accept that television, like a movie screen, is a filter on reality, then what Gianvito does is put a filter on a filter.
The film is an eloquent tribute to the oppositional figures who helped shape our country’s authentic history.
Beneath the meditative procession of sites, John Gianvito layers an anxiety built into most viewers’ gaps in 17th-to-20th-century U.S. history.
Tribeca Film Festival 2008: Profit motive and the whispering wind and Hidden in Plain Sight
by Bill Weber
Always recorded in what appears to be high spring or summer, Profit motive and the whispering wind's succession of memorials is reverent but never somnambulant