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John Winn

@john-winn.bsky.social

filmmaker | film viewer | website: https://john-winn.com/

118 Followers  |  245 Following  |  24 Posts  |  Joined: 18.03.2025
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just saw that Ode to R.G. Springsteen appeared on Blake Williams's favorite short films of 2025! filmmakermagazine.com/132954-the-b...

19.01.2026 18:25 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Ray's.Place_Crais.Winn.mp4

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...

14.01.2026 20:34 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Ode.to.R.G..Springsteen.mkv

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...

23.12.2025 15:26 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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My film β€œRedwood Souvenirs” included @benjamincrais.bsky.social’s top ten of 2025 for Screen Slate: www.screenslate.com/articles/bes...

12.12.2025 21:32 β€” πŸ‘ 8    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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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

27.11.2025 14:01 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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TAURON American Film Festival - KrΓ³tkie dokumenty o sztuce i filmie 6-11 listopada 2025, WrocΕ‚aw. Wszystkie stany kina. Coroczny festiwal prezentujΔ…cy niezaleΕΌne kino z USA oraz filmy Hollywoodzkie z gΓ³rnej pΓ³Ε‚ki.

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...

22.10.2025 13:12 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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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...

22.10.2025 13:10 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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JoΓ£o CΓ©sar 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, JoΓ£o CΓ©sar Monteiro: www.screenslate.com/articles/joa...

15.10.2025 19:21 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Redwood Souvenirs Redwood Souvenirs

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...

13.10.2025 23:25 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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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...

17.09.2025 13:41 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Made a film with @benjamincrais.bsky.socialβ€”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

03.09.2025 14:41 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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

15.08.2025 21:35 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Narrow Margin - Home Narrow Margin is a quarterly magazine dedicated to exploring the great artists, critics, and works of an under - and mis-appreciated cinema.

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

15.08.2025 21:19 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1
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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...

23.07.2025 23:50 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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it’s never β€œlet me tell you how things are” but rather β€œwhere am I? where are we (in history)?”

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

24.06.2025 15:55 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 1
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In Memoriam: Tomonari Nishikawa (1969-2025) Glimpses of a filmmaking life

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

26.04.2025 13:39 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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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

20.04.2025 22:54 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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

15.04.2025 21:32 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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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!!
chng.it/nJphppJv6b

14.04.2025 21:14 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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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...

11.04.2025 15:08 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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weak signal playing at SDUFF Sunday Apr 13 at 4PM
sdundergroundarts.org/attend-sduff-x

10.04.2025 16:26 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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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...

07.04.2025 21:36 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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

28.03.2025 15:12 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Winn.Film.Files - Google Drive

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

28.03.2025 14:59 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1
Jean-Claude Rousseau | Duke Experimental Film Society | Cinematic Arts -- Join us for a rare screening of two films by Jean-Claude Rousseau presented by Screen/Society and the Duke Experimental Film Society

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...

22.03.2025 14:04 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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tomorrow at 1PM! as part of cosmic rays film festival

22.03.2025 14:00 β€” πŸ‘ 8    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1