John Smith Movies

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...

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

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

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...

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.

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

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.

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...

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...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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...

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

A biblical interpretation of airline safety instructions.