John Smith Movies

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

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

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

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.

The only time I’ve visited a communist country was when I went to Poland in 1980, not long after Margaret Thatcher’s Conservative...

16mm experimental film of a desk fan.

Waiting by the sea with his camera ready for action, the artist complains about the weather and attempts to describe his intentions and working...

Directed by John Smith

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

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

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,...

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

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

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

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...

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 film by John Smith and Ian Bourn

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...

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...

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...