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Facing West: Six Short Films by John Winn

A program of Winn's MiniDV experimental shorts
4 films
Join us at the Film-Makers' Cooperative on Friday, November 8th, 2024, at 7pm, for a collection of MiniDV short experimental films directed by John Winn.
Films

Films

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    Red River Nonsites
    Experimental

    Red River Nonsites
    John Winn

    Tape, color, sound, 10 min
    Rental format: Digital file
    • Landscape / Architecture
    • Environment / Nature
    • Found Footage
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    Parergon
    Experimental

    Parergon
    John Winn

    Digital, color, sound, 7 min
    Rental format: Digital file
    • Landscape / Architecture
    • Environment / Nature
    • Structural
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    Ode to R.G. Springsteen
    Experimental

    Ode to R.G. Springsteen
    John Winn

    Tape, color, sound, 14 min
    Rental format: Digital file
    • Landscape / Architecture
    • Environment / Nature
    • Personal / Diary / Journal
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    Landskip
    Experimental

    Landskip
    John Winn

    Digital, color, sound, 6 min
    • Landscape / Architecture
    • Environment / Nature
    • Structural
Description

Description

Join us at the Film-Makers' Cooperative on Friday, November 8th, 2024, at 7pm, for a collection of MiniDV short experimental films directed by John Winn.

Halfway between the cinemas of Budd Boetticher and Jean-Claude Rousseau, these romantically minor movies juxtapose the visual and sonic reveries of the western genre with the banal minutiae of small-town life in the American South. 

John Winn is a filmmaker, writer, and programmer based in North Carolina. His films are meditations on everyday life — on the images that permeate it and the landscapes that frame it. Winn has screened his work globally at numerous film festivals, galleries, and microcinemas, including Transient Visions: Festival of the Moving Image, San Diego Underground Film Festival, Winnipeg Underground Film Festival, Cosmic Rays Film Festival, non-syntax Experimental Image Festival, Laterale Film Festival, and Revelation Perth International Film Festival.

Introduction by Benjamin Crais, followed by a discussion with Winn. Crais is a critic, academic, and programmer based in New York. He is currently at work on a book on the agrarian question in 20th-century political cinema.

Program:

  1. Red River Nonsites (2023, 10 minutes)
  2. Parergon (2022, 7 minutes)
  3. Historic Record of the Conquest (El Morro) (2021-24, 5 minutes)
  4. Ode to R.G. Springsteen (2024, 14 minutes)
  5. Landskip (2022, 6 minutes)
  6. Facing West (study) (2024, 4 minutes)

Total Running Time: 46 minutes.

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