John Winn is a filmmaker, writer, and curator based in Durham, North Carolina. His films are meditations on everyday life—on the images that permeate it and the landscapes that frame it. John has screened his work at numerous festivals, galleries, and microcinemas, including Transient Visions: Festival of the Moving Image, San Diego Underground Film Festival, Laterale Film Festival, the Winnipeg Underground Film Festival, Revelation Perth International Film Festival, non-syntax, and the Cosmic Rays Film Festival.
John’s writing and research is currently focused on the environmental and visual histories of cinema in the American West. He is completing a PhD in the Literature Program at Duke University. He has published in Media Fields Journal, Film International, four by three magazine, and New Review for Film and Television Studies.
As a curator, John works as the programming assistant for Screen/Society in Durham, NC. He also curates for the Duke Experimental Film Society, a graduate student-run cineclub, as well as for the Cosmic Rays Film Festival’s annual program tour.
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