John Smith Movies

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

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

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...

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

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 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.

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...

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

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

Moving from one hotel in Bethlehem to another in East Jerusalem, the filmmaker encounters a series of problems involving a ceiling, a video camera...

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

While the Iraq war continues, a day’s sightseeing and the features of a German hotel provoke a stream of thoughts about events large and small.

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

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,...

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.

7P is constructed around the carol The Twelve Days of Christmas and incorporates similar picture and sound fragments recorded over the Christmas...

An exploration of the ambiguities of documentary photographs which develops ideas triggered by a German pun. Worst Case Scenario starts out as a...

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