Screenplay: John Smith

Direction John Smith

Direction John Smith

Cast John Smith

Plot The perception of an Anglo-American hotel room is coloured by new revelations about ‘The War on Terror’ and ‘The Special Relationship’ that exists between Britain and the USA.

Direction John Smith

Plot In the mid 1970s the EMI company were preparing to market the newly developed video disc. Being uncertain as to what content would be appropriate, and looking for innovative ideas,...

Direction John Smith

Plot 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 below the seabed of the...

Direction John Smith

Plot A view across the border in Nicosia, the divided capital of Cyprus. The camera looks over the rooftops of the Greek Cypriot south to the mountains of the Turkish Republic...

Direction John Smith

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

Direction Graeme Miller · John Smith

Plot '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 piece of tape with images...

Direction John Smith

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

Direction John Smith

Plot Rapid cutting between identically framed portrait photographs creates composite faces and various illusions of movement. The film features photographs of students and staff at North-East London Polytechnic, including Tim Bruce,...

Direction John Smith

Plot A biblical interpretation of airline safety instructions.

Direction Ian Bourn · John Smith

Direction John Smith

Direction John Smith

Plot A film about haircuts, clothes and image/sound relationships. (John Smith)

Direction John Smith

Plot Dungeness’ was originally made for ‘Dungeness: The Desert in the Garden’, a multi-media theatre production directed by Graeme Miller. By selectively framing and alternating monochrome fields within the Dungeness landscape...

Direction John Smith

Plot London artist John Smith uses light-hearted humour to explore theoretical concerns – Gargantuan, for instance, is both pleasantly silly and acutely conscious of how imagery depends entirely on its framing....

Direction John Smith

Cast John Smith

Plot 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.

Direction John Smith

Plot Experimental documentary that presents a discussion of the manufacture of glass as a way to explore memory and transformation. Filled with Smith’s signature witty wordplay and elegant visual punning, 'Slow...

Direction John Smith

Plot Super 8 footage of a moving figure (Lis Rhodes), broken down into still frames and reanimated in superimposed layers.

Direction John Smith

Plot In 'The Black Tower' we enter the world of a man haunted by a tower which, he believes, is following him around London. While the character of the central protagonist...

Direction John Smith

Plot 7P is constructed around the carol The Twelve Days of Christmas and incorporates similar picture and sound fragments recorded over the Christmas period 1977-8. Using the song as a determining...