John Smith Movies

  • 1973
    Someone Moving

    Someone Moving

    Someone Moving

    01973HD

    Super 8 footage of a moving figure (Lis Rhodes), broken down into still frames and reanimated in superimposed layers. Soundtrack by Peter Cusack.

    Someone Moving
  • 2016
    Steve Hates Fish

    Steve Hates Fish

    Steve Hates Fish

    02016HD

    Recorded from a smartphone screen, its translation app running on the wrong settings and struggling to interpret North London street signs in French...

    Steve Hates Fish
  • 1991
    Slow Glass

    Slow Glass

    Slow Glass

    01991HD

    From the idea that glass, even when cooled, is a liquid that changes in appearance over time, an offscreen narrator launches a recollection of the...

    Slow Glass
  • 2011
    Unusual Red Cardigan

    Unusual Red Cardigan

    Unusual Red Cardigan

    02011HD

    The discovery of a VHS tape of the artist's films on eBay triggers obsessive speculation about the seller's identity.

    Unusual Red Cardigan
  • 1975
    Faces

    Faces

    Faces

    01975HD

    Rapid cutting between identically framed portrait photographs creates composite faces and various illusions of movement. The film features...

    Faces
  • 1999
    The Kiss

    The Kiss

    The Kiss

    01999HD

    A film by John Smith and Ian Bourn

    The Kiss
  • 1973
    The Hut

    The Hut

    The Hut

    01973HD

    Directed by John Smith

    The Hut
  • 2020
    Twice

    Twice

    Twice

    02020HD

    John Smith stands in front of a mirror, singing “Happy Birthday” in a minor key, like a funeral dirge, twice, as he washes his hands.

    Twice
  • 1999
    The Waste Land

    The Waste Land

    The Waste Land

    01999HD

    A personal interpretation of the poetry and letters of T S Eliot which explores the ambiguities of language and space in a scenario built around an...

    The Waste Land
  • 2004
    Hotel Diaries: Throwing Stones

    Hotel Diaries: Throwing Stones

    Hotel Diaries: Throwing Stones

    02004HD

    As the camera looks out through a barred window and the clock strikes four in a Swiss city, the death of Yasser Arafat provides the starting point...

    Hotel Diaries: Throwing Stones
  • 1979
    Blue Bathroom

    Blue Bathroom

    Blue Bathroom

    01979HD

    Blue Bathroom is a distillation of ideas concerning the tension between representation and materiality. It begins with an apparently straightforward...

    Blue Bathroom
  • 1979
    Double Shutter

    Double Shutter

    Double Shutter

    01979HD

    A reworking of material from the 16mm film ‘Blue Bathroom’, a distillation of ideas concerning the tension between representation and...

    Double Shutter
  • 2014
    White Hole

    White Hole

    White Hole

    02014HD

    The only time I’ve visited a communist country was when I went to Poland in 1980, not long after Margaret Thatcher’s Conservative...

    White Hole
  • 1975
    Leading Light

    Leading Light

    Leading Light

    6.51975HD

    John Smith’s Leading Light evolves a sense of screen depth and surface through the simple agency of light. The film is shot in a room over a...

    Leading Light
  • 2012
    Horizon (Five Pounds a Belgian)

    Horizon (Five Pounds a Belgian)

    Horizon (Five Pounds a Belgian)

    02012HD

    Filmed in and around Margate on the English coast, Horizon (Five Pounds a Belgian) consists of a series of identically composed images of views out...

    Horizon (Five Pounds a Belgian)
  • 2011
    The Man Phoning Mum

    The Man Phoning Mum

    The Man Phoning Mum

    02011HD

    Filmmaker John Smith revisits the original locations of his seminal experimental film The Girl Chewing Gum (1976) after 35 years, using...

    The Man Phoning Mum
  • 1978
    7P

    7P

    7P

    01978HD

    7P is constructed around the carol The Twelve Days of Christmas and incorporates similar picture and sound fragments recorded over the Christmas...

    7P
  • 1980
    Celestial Navigation

    Celestial Navigation

    Celestial Navigation

    01980HD

    Celestial Navigation could be seen to work in the tradition of British landscape film in that it incorporates a natural element (the Earths rotation)...

    Celestial Navigation
  • 1977
    Hackney Marshes – November 4th 1977

    Hackney Marshes – November 4th 1977

    Hackney Marshes – November 4th 1977

    01977HD

    An improvisation recorded over the course of one day, starting at dawn and finishing after dusk. The film was edited in camera and shot from one...

    Hackney Marshes – November 4th 1977