John Rash is a documentary filmmaker, photographer, and video artist who founded and curates the Southern Punk Archive.
Research Interests
Rash's lens-based work focuses on topics of environmentalism, social justice, and cultural outsiders.
Biography
John Rash is a filmmaker, photographer, and video artist who earned his M.F.A. in Experimental and Documentary Arts from Duke University. Rash works as an Assistant Professor of Film Production and Southern Studies at the University of Mississippi where he founded and curates the Southern Punk Archive as a means of preserving the stories of DIY punk communities of the American South.
Yangtze Drift (2014),
One Party Ultimate Night Club (2014),
Nomad Chapter (2018),
Negro Terror (2019),
Sam Wang: Centripetal Persistance (2022),
Our Movement Starts Here (2024),
The Future Runs on Electricity (2024),
John Rivera Parking Lot (2024)
Courses Taught
- Cine 302 Special Topics in Cinema Post-Production
- THEA 202 Introduction to Cinema
- THEA 350 Editing I
- THEA 256 Documentary Production
- SST 533 Fieldwork & Oral History
- SST 537 Documenting the South in Film
- SST 633 MFA Documentary Fieldwork
Education
MFA Experimental and Documentary Arts, Duke University (2014)