John Winn Movies

  • 2024
    Ode to R.G. Springsteen

    Ode to R.G. Springsteen

    Ode to R.G. Springsteen

    02024HD

    Daily dedications to a minor artisan of the classical Hollywood western. Each segment was originally a kind of letter, a private correspondence, sent...

    Ode to R.G. Springsteen
  • 2023
    Seven Images of Disappearance

    Seven Images of Disappearance

    Seven Images of Disappearance

    02023HD

    Seven images, each staging their own disappearance.

    Seven Images of Disappearance
  • 2024
    Ray's Place

    Ray's Place

    Ray's Place

    02024HD

    An oblique remake of Nicholas Ray’s On Dangerous Ground (1951), Ray’s Place follows Ray from his haunts in New York City to Binghamton...

    Ray's Place
  • 2024
    Facing West (study)

    Facing West (study)

    Facing West (study)

    02024HD

    Study of a window frame that faces West in December of 2023, put together hastily on Saturday morning in July 2024.

    Facing West (study)
  • 2023
    Landskip

    Landskip

    Landskip

    02023HD

    "Every single entity contains an adumbration or landskip of the whole Universe" (Jan Baptist van Helmont, 1650).

    Landskip
  • 2023
    out of touch (franklinia still life)

    out of touch (franklinia still life)

    out of touch (franklinia still life)

    02023HD

    the franklinia flower, now extinct in the wild, appears here as a printed image (a drawing from 1782) pinned against a kitchen wall. hand and figure...

    out of touch (franklinia still life)
  • 2024
    Red River Nonsites

    Red River Nonsites

    Red River Nonsites

    02024HD

    Located somewhere between the writings of Robert Smithson and the westerns of Howard Hawks—that somewhere being the present, momentarily...

    Red River Nonsites
  • 2024
    weak signal

    weak signal

    weak signal

    02024HD

    Images of something like nature struggling to endure against the noise of an entropic electronic signal.

    weak signal
  • 2024
    Historic Record of the Conquest (El Morro)

    Historic Record of the Conquest (El Morro)

    Historic Record of the Conquest (El Morro)

    02024HD

    The narration—interrupted by the soundtrack of Alfred E. Green's 1948 western Four Faces West—describes a 19th century photograph by...

    Historic Record of the Conquest (El Morro)
  • 2022
    Reservoir (Seven Fragments)

    Reservoir (Seven Fragments)

    Reservoir (Seven Fragments)

    02022HD

    Set at an artificial reservoir in North Carolina, RESERVOIR (SEVEN FRAGMENTS) is a meditation on the unnatural histories of the American environment....

    Reservoir (Seven Fragments)
  • 2022
    Parergon

    Parergon

    Parergon

    02022HD

    “All that which in Picture is not of the body or argument thereof is Landskip, Parergon, or By-work” (Thomas Blount, Glossographia, 1656).

    Parergon
  • 2022
    Invocations for Spring

    Invocations for Spring

    Invocations for Spring

    02022HD

    The landscape here is an assemblage of fragments—of disjuncts. Some vain repetitions as the season changes and a cloud passes by. "We are...

    Invocations for Spring