Screening
Facing West: Six Short Films by John Winn
Join us at the Film-Makers' Cooperative (475 Park Avenue South, 6th Floor) on Friday, November 8th, 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.
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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.
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Program:
- Red River Nonsites (2023, 10 minutes)
- Parergon (2022, 7 minutes)
- Historic Record of the Conquest (El Morro) (2021-24, 5 minutes)
- Ode to R.G. Springsteen (2024, 14 minutes)
- Landskip (2022, 6 minutes)
- Facing West (study) (2024, 4 minutes)
Total Running Time: 46 minutes.