John Winn Trailers
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John Winn is a filmmaker, writer, and occasional curator. His films are studies of everyday life, the images that permeate it, and the withering landscapes within which such life unfolds. John has screened his work at numerous festivals, galleries, and microcinemas, including Transient Visions: Festival of the Moving Image, San Diego Underground Film Festival, and Cosmic Rays Film Festival.
John also writes on the environmental and visual histories of cinema in the American Southwest. He has published in Media Fields Journal, Film International, four by three magazine, and New Review for Film and Television Studies.
As a curator, John currently works as the programming assistant for Screen/Society in Durham, NC and has done programming for film festivals and micro-cinemas.
Most Popular John Winn Trailers
Total trailers found: 17
20 July 2024
The narration—interrupted by the soundtrack of Alfred E. Green's 1948 western Four Faces West—describes a 19th century photograph by Timothy O’Sullivan, titled Historic Spanish Record of the Conquest.
08 September 2024
An oblique remake of Nicholas Ray’s On Dangerous Ground (1951), Ray’s Place follows Ray from his haunts in New York City to Binghamton where, exiled from Hollywood, he taught alongside members of the American avant-garde.
01 June 2024
Images of something like nature struggling to endure against the noise of an entropic electronic signal.
01 July 2024
Located somewhere between the writings of Robert Smithson and the westerns of Howard Hawks—that somewhere being the present, momentarily suspended in a few video fragments of the landscape.
18 August 2023
"Every single entity contains an adumbration or landskip of the whole Universe" (Jan Baptist van Helmont, 1650).
30 September 2024
Daily dedications to a minor artisan of the classical Hollywood western. Each segment was originally a kind of letter, a private correspondence, sent in fragments to a friend over a few weeks—an ode to R.
01 September 2023
Seven images, each staging their own disappearance.
20 July 2024
Study of a window frame that faces West in December of 2023, put together hastily on Saturday morning in July 2024.
21 October 2022
The landscape here is an assemblage of fragments—of disjuncts. Some vain repetitions as the season changes and a cloud passes by.
31 March 2022
“All that which in Picture is not of the body or argument thereof is Landskip, Parergon, or By-work” (Thomas Blount, Glossographia, 1656).
09 July 2022
Set at an artificial reservoir in North Carolina, RESERVOIR (SEVEN FRAGMENTS) is a meditation on the unnatural histories of the American environment.
19 March 2023
the franklinia flower, now extinct in the wild, appears here as a printed image (a drawing from 1782) pinned against a kitchen wall.
31 May 2026
Actuality of a man inflating a woopie cushion in his home.
27 May 2026
A story of long, long ago. When the world was just beginning.
11 January 2026
"A supplementary country called cinema … I began collecting stamps in my passport, with this infantile, idiotic, idea that I could set foot in all the countries of the world … Where I almost stumbled into catastrophe was when the postcard, a strange clandestine umbilical chord, couldn't be found.
11 June 2025
Time spent house-sitting for Fredric Jameson from 2020 until 2022. Assembled after his death as a memento for myself and others.
31 May 2025
A solitary figure pirates "A Ilha dos Prazeres Proibidos" (Carlos Reichenbach 1979), while also downloading "Carson City" (André De Toth, 1952).
