John Smith Movies

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

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.

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...

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...

Filmed from the artist’s window during the first English lockdown, ‘Citadel’ combines short fragments from British Prime Minister...

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

Gaza, December 2023. A confrontation with a disturbing photograph on social media triggers questions about what it means to be an onlooker.

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

“London artist John Smith uses light-hearted humour to explore theoretical concerns - Gargantuan, for instance, is both pleasantly silly and...

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

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

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

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

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

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...

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...

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...

A biblical interpretation of airline safety instructions.

A film about haircuts, clothes and image/sound relationships. - J.S.