Joss Winn

Video, Film and Performance 1998-2000

Thinking and Bathing, VHS, Sound, 9 minutes, 1998. About the impossibility of knowing another person.

Heat and Noise, VHS, Sound, 13 minutes, 1998. A day with the KKK.

WAKATTA, VHS, Sound, 4 minutes, 1998. WAKATTA is about the impossibility of knowing.

D.I.Y, Super 8mm, Sound, 10 minutes, 1999. I wanted to make a home movie, or rather, I wanted to make a ‘home’. D.I.Y. is a ‘home movie’ in the literal sense too. It was shot, processed and edited in and around my house. Most of the shots are external and the brief time I went inside resulted in a confused, almost violent scene of domesticity.

Worn Out, Super 8mm, Silent, 3 minutes, 1999. A performance/portrait of myself left to chance.

Jo Likes to Sleep but Joss Likes To Listen to Music in The Morning, Super 8mm, Silent, 3 minutes, 1999.

Jo Likes to Eat Slowly but Joss Likes to Eat Quickly, Super 8mm, Silent, 3 minutes, 1999.

Sadness : A song of the Sea in a minor key, Super 8mm, Silent, 3 minutes, 1999.

These Are the Views I Can Recall, Super 8mm, Silent, 10 minutes, 1999.

Mum and Dad Use A Window, Super 8mm, Silent, 3 minutes, 1999.

For Dad: Movements That We Missed, Super 8mm, Silent, 8 minutes, 2000.

If You Go To Okinawa, Head North, 16mm, Silent, 6 minutes, 2000.

WAKATTA (1998)

Wakarimashita (わかりました), or the less formal, wakatta (わかった) is Japanese for ‘I understand’ or ‘I get it’ or ‘I see’, and this is a short, playful film where I go between two languages, and use the static camera and separate soundtrack to disaggregate understanding and seeing.

WAKATTA is about the impossibility of knowing.

Betacam, 4 minutes, Japan.

Heat & Noise (1998)

Super 8/VHS, 13 minutes, USA. Jonathan Crow and Joss Winn.

Saturday May 9, 1998, the Ku Klux Klan held a rally in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Two years previous, their visit resulted in a riot. This year, flyers were posted around town again encouraging people to “Smash the KKK” by any means necessary. The flyers also railed against the police. In 1996, Anti-Klan groups clashed violently with the Law. There was still resentment over the incident on both sides. The Peace Team was organized by local religious groups to serve as a buffer between the police and the Anti-Klan groups. In the course of the day, the Klan appeared for less than an hour and their speech ignored by most people. What dominated that hot afternoon was tension between the police and political groups from outside Ann Arbor.