Catalogue des films de « John Smith »

The artist follows the British government’s advice while self-isolating at home during the COVID-19 lockdown.

Filmed directly from the screen of a smartphone using a language translator app that has been told to translate from French into English, "Steve Hates Fish" interprets the signage and architecture in a busy London shopping street. In an...

While investigating her late parents’ involvement with the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company (now known as BP) filmmaker Miranda Pennell comes across the letters of a petroleum geologist in Iran in the 1930’s, who later embarked on a search for the...

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

The only time I’ve visited a communist country was when I went to Poland in 1980, not long after Margaret Thatcher’s Conservative government was first elected in Britain. I first visited the former East Germany in 1997, eight years after the...

"Dad’s Stick" features three well-used objects that were shown to the filmmaker by his father shortly before he died. Two of these were so steeped in history that their original forms and functions were almost completely obscured. The third...

Revisiting the original locations of "The Girl Chewing Gum" after three and a half decades, "The Man Phoning Mum" retraces its camera movements and superimposes new material upon the old. Black-and-white passers by from 1976 meet their colourful...

Waiting by the sea with his camera ready for action, the artist complains about the weather and attempts to describe his intentions and working methods. "Soft Work" is a film about the making of a film, where the viewer can only imagine what that...

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 to sea, recorded over several months in dramatically different weather conditions. Incorporating...

A view across the border in Nicosia, the divided capital of Cyprus, from the rooftops of the Greek Cypriot south to the mountains of the Turkish Republic in the north, where a display of nationalism is enhanced by filmic means. Moving between...