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John Winn

@john-winn.bsky.social
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John Winn @john-winn.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Now available to order! Narrow Margin issue 04, The Western: From B-Z. Featuring writing on Budd Boetticher, André de Toth, Allan Dwan, Edgar G. Ulmer, John Wayne and more... Co-edited and have two short pieces in this! www.narrowmarginquarterly.com/04
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Issue 04 — The Western: From B to Z
To return to the western today is not to nostalgically wish for the resurrection of an obsolescent genre, but to read their relics. The empty towns, overgrown trails, and abandoned tracks. The essays ...
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John Winn @john-winn.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Redwood Souvenirs, a somewhat recent short film of mine, now online to to download or watch! drive.google.com/file/d/11DdE...
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WINN.Redwood.Souvenirs_1.mp4
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John Winn @john-winn.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
lineup for san diego underground film festival up with my film ‘redwood souvenirs’ screening saturday may 2! sdundergroundarts.org/2026-screeni...
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2026 screening schedule — 𝔰𝔞𝔫 𝔡𝔦𝔢𝔤𝔬 𝔲𝔫𝔡𝔢𝔯𝔤𝔯𝔬𝔲𝔫𝔡
2026 SCREENING  SCHEDULE All screenings will be at the Suraj Israni Center @ UCSD ︎︎︎...
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John Winn @john-winn.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
just saw that Ode to R.G. Springsteen appeared on Blake Williams's favorite short films of 2025! filmmakermagazine.com/132954-the-b...
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John Winn @john-winn.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
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...
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Ray's.Place_Crais.Winn.mp4
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John Winn @john-winn.bsky.social · 23/12/2025
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...
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Ode.to.R.G..Springsteen.mkv
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John Winn @john-winn.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
My film “Redwood Souvenirs” included @benjamincrais.bsky.social’s top ten of 2025 for Screen Slate: www.screenslate.com/articles/bes...
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John Winn @john-winn.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
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
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John Winn @john-winn.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
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...
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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.
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John Winn @john-winn.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
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...
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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, ...
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John Winn @john-winn.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
@benjamincrais.bsky.social on the greatest of all cinephilic perverts, João César Monteiro: www.screenslate.com/articles/joa...
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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...
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John Winn @john-winn.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
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...
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Redwood Souvenirs
Redwood Souvenirs
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John Winn @john-winn.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
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...
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John Winn @john-winn.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
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
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John Winn @john-winn.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
everything in this (from the translations to the original pieces) is really good! not something to miss!
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John Winn @john-winn.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
Narrow Margin, Issue 1 available online now for all the Luc Moullet and Vittorio Cottafavi heads: www.narrowmarginquarterly.com/01
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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.
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John Winn @john-winn.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
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...
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BRUISER @bruisermag.com · 24/06/2025
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
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Gabriel Linhares Falcão @falcaolinhares.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
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In Memoriam: Tomonari Nishikawa (1969-2025)
Glimpses of a filmmaking life
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John Winn @john-winn.bsky.social · 20/04/2025
RIP Tomo vimeo.com/236475516
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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…
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John Winn @john-winn.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
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
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John Winn @john-winn.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
Please consider signing this petition calling on the Film-Makers' Cooperative board to rehire Robert Schneider!! chng.it/nJphppJv6b
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Have you seen this petition yet?
To the Film-Makers' Cooperative Board: Rehire Robert Schneider & Explain Your Future Plans
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John Winn @john-winn.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
Genevieve Yue reviewing this year’s Cosmic Rays film fest, with some remarks on Ode to R.G. Springsteen! cosmicraysfilmfest.com/reviews-of-t...
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John Winn @john-winn.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
weak signal playing at SDUFF Sunday Apr 13 at 4PM sdundergroundarts.org/attend-sduff-x
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John Winn @john-winn.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
Red River Nonsites playing in the April 18th program of Film-Makers’ Coop’s annual new work fest film-makerscoop.com/screenings/t...
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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!
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John Winn @john-winn.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
made a google folder where you can download my films: drive.google.com/drive/folder...
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Winn.Film.Files - Google Drive
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John Winn @john-winn.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
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...
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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
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John Winn @john-winn.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
tomorrow at 1PM! as part of cosmic rays film festival
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