John Smith Movies
- 1972
Triangles
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Abstract animation punctuated by found footage, cut to the song White Light / White Heat by The Velvet Underground.
- 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...
- 2019
In Far Away Land
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Back stroke butterfly, front crawl and bras, we are awash in an ocean of bubbles. Meanwhile Captain Ahab sets sail on his magic carpet in search of...
- 1994
Home Suite
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Home Suite, Smith’s first video work, is a close-up journey through a domestic landscape and a journey through memory, containing only three...
- 2021
Covid Messages
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‘Covid Messages’ is a video in six parts, based around broadcasts of Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s COVID-19 press conferences. The...
- 2007
Hotel Diaries: Six Years Later
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The filmmaker returns to the city where he made the first video in the series [Frozen War] and looks back at the events of the past six years.
- 1979
Blue Bathroom
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Blue Bathroom is a distillation of ideas concerning the tension between representation and materiality. It begins with an apparently straightforward...
- 2016
Who Are We?
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On the 23rd of June 2016 Britain voted to leave the European Union. Who Are We? is a re-working of material from a BBC television debate transmitted...
- 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...
- 1987
Dungeness
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‘Dungeness’ was originally made for ‘Dungeness: The Desert in the Garden’, a multi-media theatre production directed by...
- 1999
Regression
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A portrait of the artist as a not so young man. The film-maker attempts to enter the digital age by making a new video version of his 1978 film 7P.
- 2007
Hotel Diaries: Pyramids/Skunk
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Hamas have just won the Palestinian elections and a chocolate bar in a Rotterdam hotel room eventually reminds the filmmaker that there are more...
- 2004
Hotel Diaries: Throwing Stones
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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...
- 1982
Shine So Hard
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'Shine So Hard' is a rare Echo and the Bunnymen promotional concert film, taking place during their 1981 'Camo Tour'.
- 2019
A State of Grace
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A biblical interpretation of airline safety instructions.
- 2012
Soft Work
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Waiting by the sea with his camera ready for action, the artist complains about the weather and attempts to describe his intentions and working...
- 1979
Double Shutter
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A reworking of material from the 16mm film ‘Blue Bathroom’, a distillation of ideas concerning the tension between representation and...
- 2001
Lost Sound
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Lost Sound documents fragments of discarded audio tape found on the streets of a small area of East London, combining the sound retrieved from each...
- 1999
The Kiss
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A film by John Smith and Ian Bourn
- 2017
Jour de Fête
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“If anyone slaps you on the right cheek, turn to them the other cheek also.” Matthew 5:38-40