John Winn

Education

• Ph.D. Literature Program, Duke University – ongoing.
• M.A. Humanities, University of Chicago.

Films

• Seven Images of Disappearance, Tape/Digital, 9 minutes, Sound, 2023.
• out of touch (franklinia still life), Tape/Digital, 4 minutes, Sound, 2023.
• Invocations for Spring, Tape/Digital, 3 min, Sound, 2022.
• Reservoir (Seven Fragments), Tape/Digital, 9 minutes, Sound, 2022.
• Parergon, Tape/Digital, 6 min, Sound, 2021.

Screenings

• Ikueikan University, Hokkaido, Japan, 2023, Reservoir (Seven Fragments). (curated by Tomonari Nishikawa)
• EXPOSURE, Vestal, NY, 2023, Parergon. (curated by Tomonari Nishikawa)
• non-syntax Experimental Image, Tokyo, Japan, 2023, Landskip.
• Laterale Film Festival, Cosenza, Italy, 2023, Seven Images of Disappearance.
• West Virginia Mountaineer Short Film Festival, Morgantown, WV, 2023, Reservoir (Seven Fragments).
• San Diego Underground Film Festival, San Diego, CA, 2023, out of touch (franklinia still life).
• Cosmic Rays Film Festival, Chapel Hill, NC, 2023, Reservoir (Seven Fragments).
• Unnamed Footage Festival, San Francisco, CA, 2023, out of touch (franklinia still life).
• aCinema – February Program: A New Wave Theory, Milwaukee, WI, 2023, Parergon.
• Millennium Film Workshop – January Open Screening, New York, NY, 2023, Invocations for Spring; Reservoir (Seven Fragments); Parergon.
• Transient Visions Film Festival, Johnson City, NY, 2022, Invocations for Spring.
• Kansas City Underground Film Festival, Kansas City, MO, 2022, Reservoir (Seven Fragments).
• Revelation Perth International Film Festival, Perth, 2022, Reservoir (Seven Fragments).
• Tune in to Green – Exhibition Seven, Online, 2022, Invocations for Spring.
• Twin Rivers Media Festival, Asheville, NC, 2022, Parergon.
• Cosmic Rays Film Festival, Chapel Hill, NC, 2022, Parergon.
• NTS Radio, Online, 2017, Closet Ecology, w/ Aaron Dowdy.

Publications

• Articles
  • Co-authored w/ Aaron Dowdy. “The Edge of Linear Cinema.” Media Fields Journal 14 (2019).
  • “The Wasteful Semblances of David Cronenberg’s Cosmopolis.” Film Matters 7.2 (2016).
• Other Publications
  • “Review of The Landscapes of Western Movies.” New Review of Film and Television Studies 21 (2023).
  • “Performing Death: Derek Jarman’s Medial Blues.” four by three magazine (2017).
  • “Assemblages for After the Judgment: Cy Twombly’s Coming Community.” four by three magazine (2017).
  • “Traces of Postindian Survivance: Two Short Films by Jeff Barnaby.” Film International (2016).

Conferences and Invited Talks

• Invited Talks
  • Co-presented w/ Aaron Dowdy. “The Lines of Fernand Deligny’s Le Moindre Geste.” Film in Theory, Duke University. 2018.
• Conferences
  • “The Geological Film Theory of Robert Smithson.” SCMS. 2023.
  • “Timothy O’Sullivan, Interpretive Excess, and the Western Landscape.” World Picture. 2022.
  • “The Ecological Modernism of John Ford.” SCMS. 2022.
  • “Envisioning Extraction: Timothy O’Sullivan and the Geological Survey.” SLSA. 2021.
  • “The Lines of Cinema: Deleuze and Artaud.” SCMS. 2021.
  • “Organicism and Cinema: Busby Berkeley.” World Picture. 2019.
  • “An Accidental Cinema: Robert Aldrich’s Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?” SCMS. 2019.
  • Co-presented w/ Aaron Dowdy. “Twentieth Century Lines: An Image of Sensual Form.” Sensing Media, University of Chicago. 2018.
  • “Medial Conversations.” MAPH Works in Progress. 2017.

Curation and Programming

• Programmer, Duke Experimental Film Society, 2022 – present.
• Programming Assistant, Screen/Society at Duke University, 2022 – present.
• Curator, Touring Program, Cosmic Rays Film Festival, 2022; 2023.
• Screening Committee, Cosmic Rays Film Festival, 2023; 2024.

Editorial Work

• Co-Editor, Polygraph Journal: Issue 30, 2024.
• Member of Editorial Collective, Polygraph Journal, 2020 – present.

Awards and Fellowships

• Summer Fellowship, Fatwood Studio, 2024
• Graduate Student Training Grant, 2022
• Summer Research Fellowship, 2019; 2020; 2021; 2023
• University of Chicago M.A. Thesis Award in the Humanities, 2017

Teaching and Research

• Primary Instructor, “American Film Comedy,” Duke University, Fall 2024
• Primary Instructor, “Film Theory,” Duke University, Spring 2024
• Primary Instructor, “Cinematic Environments,” Duke
  University, Spring 2022
• Teaching Assistant, “Introduction to Digital Culture,” Primary Instructor: Prof. Luciana Parisi, Program in Literature, Duke University, Fall 2021
• Teaching Assistant, “Social Movements/Social Media,” Primary Instructor: Prof. Negar Mottahedeh, Program in Literature, Duke University, Spring 2021
• Teaching Assistant, “Bad Behavior,” Primary Instructor: Prof. Nima Bassiri, Program in Literature, Duke University, Fall 2020
• Teaching Assistant, “Understanding Mediation,” Primary Instructor: Prof. Markos Hadjioannou, Program in Literature, Duke University, Spring 2020
• Teaching Assistant, “Narrative and Ideology,” Primary Instructor: Prof. Fredric Jameson, Program in Literature, Duke University, Fall 2019
• Research Assistant, Prof. Markos Hadjioannou, Program in Literature, Duke University, Fall 2018-Spring 2019
• Research Assistant, Prof. Mark Hansen, Program in Literature, Duke University, Spring, 2019

Service

• Secretary, “Film Philosophy” Scholarly Interest Group, Society for Cinema and Media Studies (SCMS), 2019-2022