John Smith Movies

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

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

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

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 biblical interpretation of airline safety instructions.

'Shine So Hard' is a rare Echo and the Bunnymen promotional concert film, taking place during their 1981 'Camo Tour'.

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...

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

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

Artist John Smith tells stories about tower block life, editing in bold, unconventional fashion, cutting into the material and highlighting the...

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

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...

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

Reflecting on past political problems and the state of the world as it was provides no tools or means for envisioning the future.

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.

Home Suite, Smith’s first video work, is a close-up journey through a domestic landscape and a journey through memory, containing only three...

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

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

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

“If anyone slaps you on the right cheek, turn to them the other cheek also.” Matthew 5:38-40