475 Park Ave South, 6th Floor, New York, NY, 10016
Monday - Friday
11:00am - 5:00pm
a.k.a. The New American Cinema Group. Est. 1961.
The largest archive and distributor of independent and avant-garde films in the world.
Join us at the Film-Makers' Cooperative (475 Park Avenue South, 6th Floor) on FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 8th, at 7pm, for a collection of MiniDV short experimental films directed by John Winn. Halfway between the cinemas of Budd Boetticher and Jean-Claude Rousseau, these romantically minor movies juxtapose the visual and sonic reveries of the western genre with the banal minutiae of small-town life in the American South.
John Winn is a filmmaker, writer, and programmer based in North Carolina. His films are meditations on everyday life — on the images that permeate it and the landscapes that frame it. Winn has screened his work globally at numerous film festivals, galleries, and microcinemas, including Transient Visions: Festival of the Moving Image, San Diego Underground Film Festival, Winnipeg Underground Film Festival, Cosmic Rays Film Festival, non-syntax Experimental Image Festival, Laterale Film Festival, and Revelation Perth International Film Festival.
Introduction by Benjamin Crais, followed by a discussion with Winn. Crais is a critic, academic, and programmer based in New York. He is currently at work on a book on the agrarian question in 20th-century political cinema.
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Total Running Time: 46 minutes.
The Film-Makers’ Cooperative is the largest archive and distributor of independent and avant-garde films in the world. Created by artists in 1961 as the distribution branch of the New American Cinema Group, the Coop has more than 5,000 films, videotapes, and DVDs in its collection.
475 Park Ave South, 6th Floor, New York, NY, 10016
Monday - Friday
11:00am - 5:00pm