John Smith Movies
- 1973
Someone Moving
Someone Moving01973HD
Super 8 footage of a moving figure (Lis Rhodes), broken down into still frames and reanimated in superimposed layers. Soundtrack by Peter Cusack.
- 2016
Steve Hates Fish
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Recorded from a smartphone screen, its translation app running on the wrong settings and struggling to interpret North London street signs in French...
- 1991
Slow Glass
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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...
- 2011
Unusual Red Cardigan
Unusual Red Cardigan02011HD
The discovery of a VHS tape of the artist's films on eBay triggers obsessive speculation about the seller's identity.
- 1975
Faces
Faces01975HD
Rapid cutting between identically framed portrait photographs creates composite faces and various illusions of movement. The film features...
- 1999
The Kiss
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A film by John Smith and Ian Bourn
- 1973
The Hut
The Hut01973HD
Directed by John Smith
- 2020
Twice
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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.
- 1999
The Waste Land
The Waste Land01999HD
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...
- 2004
Hotel Diaries: Throwing Stones
Hotel Diaries: Throwing Stones02004HD
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...
- 1979
Blue Bathroom
Blue Bathroom01979HD
Blue Bathroom is a distillation of ideas concerning the tension between representation and materiality. It begins with an apparently straightforward...
- 1979
Double Shutter
Double Shutter01979HD
A reworking of material from the 16mm film ‘Blue Bathroom’, a distillation of ideas concerning the tension between representation and...
- 2014
White Hole
White Hole02014HD
The only time I’ve visited a communist country was when I went to Poland in 1980, not long after Margaret Thatcher’s Conservative...
- 1975
Leading Light
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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...
- 2012
Horizon (Five Pounds a Belgian)
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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...
- 2011
The Man Phoning Mum
The Man Phoning Mum02011HD
Filmmaker John Smith revisits the original locations of his seminal experimental film The Girl Chewing Gum (1976) after 35 years, using...
- 1978
7P
7P01978HD
7P is constructed around the carol The Twelve Days of Christmas and incorporates similar picture and sound fragments recorded over the Christmas...
- 1980
Celestial Navigation
Celestial Navigation01980HD
Celestial Navigation could be seen to work in the tradition of British landscape film in that it incorporates a natural element (the Earths rotation)...
- 1977
Hackney Marshes – November 4th 1977
Hackney Marshes – November 4th 197701977HD
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...