John Winn is a filmmaker, writer, educator, and curator. John has screened his films globally, including at the International Film Festival Rotterdam, Beijing International Short Film Festival, Transient Visions: Festival of the Moving Image, San Diego Underground Film Festival, Winnipeg Underground Film Festival, non-syntax Experimental Image Festival, and Cosmic Rays Film Festival.
John has published a number of essays and articles, including a forthcoming article in Discourse: Journal for Theoretical Studies in Media and Culture, on film theory and history. He has a PhD from the Program in Literature at Duke University.
John is also an instructor of cinema and media, having taught and designed college courses on film theory, environmental aesthetics, global cinema, and popular genres.
As a curator, John worked as Assistant Programmer for Screen/Society at Duke University from 2022 to 2026, where he organized hundreds of screenings ranging from Howard Hawks’s Hatari!, on 35mm IB-Technicolor, to Margaret Tait’s personal portraits.
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