Jack Guariento

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I’m a filmmaker and programmer from Glasgow, Scotland, currently based in Montreal.

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.

In 2023/24, I was the programming assistant for Iberodocs, a Scotland-based Ibero-American documentary film festival. I have 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 was recently on the pre-selection team for Glasgow Short Film Festival’s Bill Douglas Award, and in May I will present two films by Kazakh filmmaker Sergey Dvortsevoy at Cinéma Public in Montreal.

CV:

Programming & Curation

2025/2026, Pre-selector, Glasgow Short Film Festival
2025, ‘Pread Day + Paradise,’ Cinéma Public
2024/2025, Pre-selector, Glasgow Short Film Festival
2023, Programming Assistant, Iberodocs
2023, ‘Six Short Films About Housing,’ CCA Glasgow

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

2025, OffBeat Folk Film Festival, Bellsmyre Caledonia
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 Records)
2021, It Looks Like It’s Gunna..., Morvern (J.G.) (Leaf People)
2021, New House, Raveloe (Olive Grove)
2021, Hollow Days; Sulka (Lost Map)
2020, Sheep Sleep; MOD (Negative Hope)

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

CV:

Programming & Curation

2025, ‘Pread Day + Paradise,’ Cinema Public
2024, Pre-selector, Glasgow Short Film Festival
2023, Programming Assistant, Iberodocs
2023, ‘Six Short Films About Housing,’ CCA Glasgow

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

2025, OffBeat Folk Film Festival, Bellsmyre Caledonia
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