Jack Guariento
I’m a filmmaker and programmer from Glasgow, Scotland, currently based in Montreal.
While my moving image works vary in style, content, form etc., at the centre of most of them can be found a preoccupation with grief, longing, nostalgia, and other experiences which are affectively confusing and weird. Such experiences refuse neat categorisation, leaving us grasping for new languages with which to understand our place in a world that is and has always been uncertain and messy. I suppose it is this grasping (sometimes successful, more often not) that interests me and that I want to explore through my work.
Similarly, in my programming work I am especially drawn to films which play around with form in weird and though provoking ways, and have a particular interest in the crossover between activist film and experimental cinema. I recently finished up working as a programming assistant for Iberodocs, a Scotland-based Ibero-American documentary film festival. I have also curated an evening of short films related to housing activism at the CCA in Glasgow, and am a 2023 Internationale Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen Seminar Fellow. I am currently on the pre-selection team for Glasgow Short Film Festival.
CV:
Films
- 2024, Sagittarius; VHS, digital
- 2024, Lapide; VHS
- 2023, The Letter; digital
- 2023, Prayer in the Barley; digital
- 2022, Bellsmyre Caledonia; 16mm & 8mm
- 2021, Marjorie’s Story; digital - (made in collaboration with Living Rent & Uma Nada-Rajah). Made possible with funding from Arika
- 2021, The Sun UP & Down Like a Yo-Yo; 8mm
- 2020, Phone Convos; digital
- 2019, My Grandmother Sits in the Garden; VHS
- 2019, North Kelvin Meadow; VHS
Screenings
- 2024, MTL Montage, Lapide
- 2024, Exit Glasgow, Lapide
- 2024, Glasgow Short Film Festival, The Letter
- 2023, Glasgow Short Film Festival, Bellsmyre Caledonia
- 2023, CCA, ‘Six Short Films About Housing,’ Bellsmyre Caledonia
- 2023, Alchemy Film & Arts Festival, Bellsmyre Caledonia
- 2022, Glasgow Trades Council, Marjorie’s Story
- 2022, Alchemy Film & Arts Festival, The Sun Up & Down Like a Yo-Yo
- 2022, Glasgow Women’s Library, Marjorie’s Story
- 2021, Workers’ Stories at GalGael, Marjorie’s Story
- 2021, GAMIS & Govanhill International Festival, The Sun Up & Down Like a Yo-Yo
- 2021, Alchemy Film & Arts Festival, My Grandmother Sits in the Garden
- 2020, International Portrait Film Festival, My Grandmother Sits in the Garden
- 2020, 9th Annual Video Poetry Festival, My Grandmother Sits in the Garden
Music Video Commissions
- 2021, Catkins, Raveloe (Olive Grove, in collaboration with Mac Arts)
- 2021, It Looks Like It’s Gunna..., Morvern (J.G.) (Leaf People)
- 2021, New House, Raveloe (Olive Grove)
- 2021, Hollow Days; Sulka (Lost Map Records)
- 2020, Sheep Sleep; MOD (Negative Hope Records)
Residencies, Training, Courses, etc.
- 2023, Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen Seminar.
- 2023, GMAC Film, Little Pictures - commissioned filmmaker.
- 2021, Sharp Shorts development scheme, Short Circuit
- 2021, Interdisciplinary Residency, Hospitalfield
- 2021, Research Skills Training, Bectu Vision
- 2021, Archive in Contemporary Production, NFTS
- 2017, Certificate in Ethnographic Documentary Filmmaking, Granada Centre for Visual Anthropology
Education
- 2019, University of Glasgow, MEd in Adult Education, Community Development & Youth Work - graduation with distinction
- 2016, University of Edinburgh, MA (Hons) in Social Anthropology - graduation with distinction
Jack Guariento
I’m a filmmaker and programmer from Glasgow, Scotland, currently based in Montreal.
While my moving image works vary in style, content, form etc., at the centre of most of them can be found a preoccupation with grief, longing, nostalgia, and other experiences which are affectively confusing and weird. Such experiences refuse neat categorisation, leaving us grasping for new languages with which to understand our place in a world that is and has always been uncertain and messy. I suppose it is this grasping (sometimes successful, more often not) that interests me and that I want to explore through my work.
Similarly, in my programming work I am especially drawn to films which play around with form in weird and though provoking ways, and have a particular interest in the crossover between activist film and experimental cinema. I recently finished up working as a programming assistant for Iberodocs, a Scotland-based Ibero-American documentary film festival. I have also curated an evening of short films related to housing activism at the CCA in Glasgow, and am a 2023 Internationale Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen Seminar Fellow. I am currently on the pre-selection team for Glasgow Short Film Festival.
Lapide
2024, VHS
4 mins 52
‘Lapide’ follows my grandmother as she gives a tour of the local graveyard in the town in northern Italy where she lives. I use the same camera with which my own early childhood was meticulously documented, and try to explore the idea of home video aesthetics as an aesthetics of care and of witnessing.
2024, VHS
4 mins 52
‘Lapide’ follows my grandmother as she gives a tour of the local graveyard in the town in northern Italy where she lives. I use the same camera with which my own early childhood was meticulously documented, and try to explore the idea of home video aesthetics as an aesthetics of care and of witnessing.
