John Smith Movies
- 1976
The Girl Chewing Gum
The Girl Chewing Gum6.61976HD
At Stamford Road in Dalston Junction of east London, the camera follows pedestrians, cars and birds while a narrator, who appears to be the director...
- 2010
Flag Mountain
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A view across the border in Nicosia, the divided capital of Cyprus. The camera looks over the rooftops of the Greek Cypriot south to the mountains of...
- 2021
Citadel
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Filmed from the artist’s window during the first English lockdown, ‘Citadel’ combines short fragments from British Prime Minister...
- 1987
The Black Tower
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A man finds himself haunted by a mysterious black tower in London that appears to follow him wherever he goes.
- 1978
Hackney Marshes
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Artist John Smith tells stories about tower block life, editing in bold, unconventional fashion, cutting into the material and highlighting the...
- 1996
Blight
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A short film featuring the voices of those affected when the M11 Link Road in East London was built, accompanied by scenes and sounds of demolition.
- 2024
Being John Smith
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Being John Smith is a deceptively wry and deeply felt work by the English avant-garde legend, in which Smith reflects on his life and career by way...
- 2011
unusual Red cardigan
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The discovery of a VHS tape of the artist's films on eBay triggers obsessive speculation about the seller's identity.
- 1975
Associations
Associations6.51975HD
'Associations' sets language against itself by using the ambiguities inherent in the English language. Images from magazines and color supplements...
- 2012
Dad's Stick
Dad's Stick6.32012HD
Dad’s Stick features three well-used objects that were shown to the artist by his father shortly before he died. Two of these were so steeped...
- 1986
Om
Om5.71986HD
A film about haircuts, clothes and image/sound relationships. - J.S.
- 1992
Gargantuan
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“London artist John Smith uses light-hearted humour to explore theoretical concerns - Gargantuan, for instance, is both pleasantly silly and...
- 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.
- 2003
Worst Case Scenario
Worst Case Scenario82003HD
An exploration of the ambiguities of documentary photographs which develops ideas triggered by a German pun. Worst Case Scenario starts out as a...
- 2004
Hotel Diaries: Museum Piece
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While the Iraq war continues, a day’s sightseeing and the features of a German hotel provoke a stream of thoughts about events large and small.
- 2007
Hotel Diaries: Dirty Pictures
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Moving from one hotel in Bethlehem to another in East Jerusalem, the filmmaker encounters a series of problems involving a ceiling, a video camera...
- 1975
Faces
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Rapid cutting between identically framed portrait photographs creates composite faces and various illusions of movement. The film features...
- 1984
Shepherd’s Delight
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Many of my films involve humour, but unlike the earlier work Shepherd’s Delight attempts to confront the problem of humour head-on, referring...
- 2018
Song For Europe
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On December 1st 1990, watched by the world’s media, construction worker Graham Fagg of Dover climbed through a hole in a chalk wall 40 metres...
- 1978
Fan
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16mm experimental film of a desk fan.