John Smith Movies

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

'Associations' sets language against itself by using the ambiguities inherent in the English language. Images from magazines and color supplements...

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

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...

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...

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

Hamas have just won the Palestinian elections and a chocolate bar in a Rotterdam hotel room eventually reminds the filmmaker that there are more...

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...

A man finds himself haunted by a mysterious black tower in London that appears to follow him wherever he goes.

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.

THE CAMERA, THE ACTOR was commissioned by musician Charles Hayward to accompany the song of the same name on his album entitled (Begin Anywhere).

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

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...

Many of my films involve humour, but unlike the earlier work Shepherd’s Delight attempts to confront the problem of humour head-on, referring...

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.

Moving from one hotel in Bethlehem to another in East Jerusalem, the filmmaker encounters a series of problems involving a ceiling, a video camera...

An exploration of the ambiguities of documentary photographs which develops ideas triggered by a German pun. Worst Case Scenario starts out as a...

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

Abstract animation punctuated by found footage, cut to the song White Light / White Heat by The Velvet Underground.