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Fornearlytwodecades,JohnGianvitohasbeencarvingoutauniquespaceinAmericancinemawithpassionprojectsofexpansiveshapeandpoliticalambition,includingTheMadSongsofFernandaHussein,adocumentary-fictioninquiryintothehumantolloftheGulfWar,andProfitMotiveandtheWhisperingWind,abecalmedyetradicalHowardZinn–inspiredreflectiononAmericanprogressivism.Inhisnewfilm,Gianvitomeditatesonaparticularmomentinearly20th-centuryhistory:whenHelenKellerbeganspeakingoutpassionatelyonbehalfofprogressivecauses.Beginningin1913,when,atage32,Kellergaveherfirstpublictalkbeforeageneralaudience,HerSocialistSmileisconstructedofonscreentexttakenfromKeller’sspeeches,impressionisticimagesofnature,andnewlyrecordedvoiceoverbypoetCarolynForché.ThefilmisarousingreminderthatKeller’sundauntedactivismforlaborrights,pacifism,andwomen’ssuffragewasphilosophicallyinseparablefromherbattlesfortherightsofthedisabled.
