John Winn

just saw that Ode to R.G. Springsteen appeared on Blake Williams's favorite short films of 2025! filmmakermagazine.com/132954-the-b...

download now available for my and @benjamincrais.bsky.social's film Ray's Place (a biographical reworking of Nick Ray's On Dangerous Ground): drive.google.com/file/d/1NaNu...

if you're looking to watch an experimental western of sorts (recalling monteiro and rousseau), here's a link to my 2024 short film Ode to R.G. Springsteen (feel free to dm for links to my 2025 shorts Redwood Souvenirs and Frail Hope, just not publicly available yet): drive.google.com/file/d/1n3KP...

My film “Redwood Souvenirs” included @benjamincrais.bsky.social’s top ten of 2025 for Screen Slate: www.screenslate.com/articles/bes...

My film Ode to R.G. Springsteen is screening as part of the online program for the CineSalon experimental film festival starting Dec. 6! Checkout the full program here: www.cinesalon.org

TAURON American Film Festival - Krótkie dokumenty o sztuce i filmie 6-11 listopada 2025, Wrocław. Wszystkie stany kina. Coroczny festiwal prezentujący niezależne kino z USA oraz filmy Hollywoodzkie z górnej półki.

Ode to R.G. Springsteen screening at the American Film Festival in Poland as part of their shorts programs of films on films! www.americanfilmfestival.pl/opis.do?id=1...

Westerns Westerns are part of our collective memory. Experimental filmmakers engage with this shared legacy in various shapes and forms. All films in this program will be shown in their original medium (16mm, ...

just saw that i had a film play at Art Cinema OFFoff in Ghent! already happened but very cool program of experimental 'westerns' curated by Gijs Suy
offoff.be/en/archive/w...

João César Monteiro: Symphonies of a Libertine A brief account of a three-minute film: A spindly, well-dressed man strolls down a lamp-lit Lisbon street. As he reaches his apartment, the soundtrack of the most romantic scene from Nicholas Ray’s Jo...

@benjamincrais.bsky.social on the greatest of all cinephilic perverts, João César Monteiro: www.screenslate.com/articles/joa...

delighted to announce i've got two short films screening at the Beijing International Short Film Festival! "Redwood Souvenirs" in the international competition and "Frail Hope" premiering as part of an archival filmmaking section:
www.bisff.co/selection/re...
www.bisff.co/selection/fr...

my recent film Redwood Souvenirs premieres at RPM festival on Oct. 11! it's a film i assembled from old footage from my time house-sitting for Fred from 2020-22, made after his death as a memento for myself and others
revolutionsperminutefest.org/2025_10_11_P...

Made a film with @benjamincrais.bsky.social—something like a re-staging of Ray's On Dangerous Ground that traverses some of Ray's actual haunts (nyc in the 30s, upstate ny in the 70s). premiering sep. 12 at I Mille Occhi, truly wild programming: www.imilleocchi.com/1000occhi_programma25_online.pdf

everything in this (from the translations to the original pieces) is really good! not something to miss!

Narrow Margin, Issue 1 available online now for all the Luc Moullet and Vittorio Cottafavi heads: www.narrowmarginquarterly.com/01

Ode to R.G. Springsteen screening in a few days with some other wonderful films at the first Weekend Domain Experimental Image Festival in Guangzhou! mp.weixin.qq.com/s/W5NODwxbC2...

it’s never “let me tell you how things are” but rather “where am I? where are we (in history)?”

Whitney Strub and Benjamin Crais correspond on Robert Kramer and John Douglas’ MILESTONES

In Memoriam: Tomonari Nishikawa (1969-2025) Glimpses of a filmmaking life

oldnew.substack.com/p/in-memoria...

Ten Mornings Ten Evenings and One Horizon (10 min., 16mm, sound, color, Japan, 2016) It displays bridges on Yahagi River, which runs near where I was grown up in Japan. I shot each bridge twice, first in the morning and second in the evening of the…

RIP Tomo
vimeo.com/236475516

just added weak signal (2023) to download from my googledrive

partial screening history:
Transient Visions Festival of the Moving Image
Winnipeg Underground Film Festival
San Diego Underground Film Festival
Ivano-Frankivsk International Short Film Festival

Have you seen this petition yet? To the Film-Makers' Cooperative Board: Rehire Robert Schneider & Explain Your Future Plans

Please consider signing this petition calling on the Film-Makers' Cooperative board to rehire Robert Schneider!!
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Genevieve Yue reviewing this year’s Cosmic Rays film fest, with some remarks on Ode to R.G. Springsteen!
cosmicraysfilmfest.com/reviews-of-t...

weak signal playing at SDUFF Sunday Apr 13 at 4PM
sdundergroundarts.org/attend-sduff-x

The 12th Annual New Year/New Work Festival - The Film-Makers' Cooperative Join us at the Film-Makers' Cooperative (475 Park Avenue South, 6th Floor) on FRIDAY, APRIL 11th, and FRIDAY, APRIL 18th, for the 12th Annual New Year/New Work Festival!

Red River Nonsites playing in the April 18th program of Film-Makers’ Coop’s annual new work fest film-makerscoop.com/screenings/t...

and will continue to add films to this folder as they finish their rounds at festivals

made a google folder where you can download my films:
drive.google.com/drive/folder...

curated a screening of two super 8 short films by Jean-Claude Rousseau (the greatest living filmmaker) in April at Screen/Society in Durham, NC. very rare opportunity to see this work theatrically, not to be missed! cinematicarts.duke.edu/screensociet...

tomorrow at 1PM! as part of cosmic rays film festival