Jack Guariento
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
Jack Guariento
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.
The Sun Up & Down Like a Yo-Yo
2020, 8mm
4 mins 7
In this film, I make use of 8mm footage and still inserts of old family photos from my childhood, and try to explore the lines between myself and my other family members.
2020, 8mm
4 mins 7
In this film, I make use of 8mm footage and still inserts of old family photos from my childhood, and try to explore the lines between myself and my other family members.
