John Smith Filmes

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

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

Made over six years in the hotels of six different countries, Hotel Diaries charts the 'War on Terror' era of Bush and Blair through a seven-part...

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...

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

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...

A film by John Smith and Ian Bourn

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

A biblical interpretation of airline safety instructions.

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

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.

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

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

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.

A larger than life tribute to Prince Philip, His Royal Highness the Duke of Edinburgh, recorded in 2002 and completed on the day of his death, April...

‘Covid Messages’ is a video in six parts, based around broadcasts of Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s COVID-19 press conferences. The...

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

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

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

Filmed in and around Margate on the English coast, Horizon (Five Pounds a Belgian) consists of a series of identically composed images of views out...