John Smith: Program 2

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Collection: Single Artist Compilations

Tags: European Film/Video, Humor, Landscape

"The films of John Smith conduct a serious investigation into the combination of sound and image, but with a sense of humour that reaches out beyond the traditional avant-garde audience. His films and videos move between narrative and absurdity, constantly undermining the traditional relationship between the visual and the aural. By blurring the perceived boundaries of experimental film, fiction and documentary, Smith never delivers what he has led the spectator to expect."

—Mark Webber, Leeds International Film Festival catalogue 2000

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Included Titles

John Smith Slow Glass 1991 \| 40:00 A nostalgic glazier shows off his knowledge and expounds his theories. Taking glassmaking processes and history as its central theme, Slow Glass explores ideas about memory, perception and change. Collection: Single Titles Tags: european film/video, experimental film, history, humor, labor	John Smith Blight 1996 \| 14:00 "Blight was made in collaboration with composer Jocelyn Pook. It revolves around the building of the M11 Link Road in East London, which provoked a long and bitter campaign by local residents to protect their homes from demolition. Until... Collection: Single Titles Tags: activism, city, european film/video, landscape, memory, music, politics, sound
John Smith The Waste Land 1999 \| 05:00 A personal interpretation of the poetry and letters of T.S. Eliot that explores the ambiguities of language and space in a scenario built around an anagram. "A brilliant, absurd staging of Eliot’s The Waste Land in the local pub by the... Collection: Single Titles Tags: european film/video, humor, language, poetry	John Smith The Kiss 1999 \| 05:00 Made with Ian Bourn. A depiction of the forced development of a hothouse flower. Organic growth is progressively overtaken by a more sinister mechanical process. "The makers manage very convincingly to wrong-foot the viewer in just... Collection: Single Titles Tags: european film/video, expedition/travel, film or videomaking
John Smith Regression 1999 \| 17:00 A portrait of the artist as a not-so-young man. The filmmaker attempts to enter the digital age by making a new video version of one of his old films. "The award of the Short Film Festival goes to a video in which the reflection of... Collection: Single Titles Tags: aging, european film/video, film or videomaking, humor, language, performance

John Smith Slow Glass 1991 \| 40:00 A nostalgic glazier shows off his knowledge and expounds his theories. Taking glassmaking processes and history as its central theme, Slow Glass explores ideas about memory, perception and change. Collection: Single Titles Tags: european film/video, experimental film, history, humor, labor	John Smith Blight 1996 \| 14:00 "Blight was made in collaboration with composer Jocelyn Pook. It revolves around the building of the M11 Link Road in East London, which provoked a long and bitter campaign by local residents to protect their homes from demolition. Until... Collection: Single Titles Tags: activism, city, european film/video, landscape, memory, music, politics, sound
John Smith The Waste Land 1999 \| 05:00 A personal interpretation of the poetry and letters of T.S. Eliot that explores the ambiguities of language and space in a scenario built around an anagram. "A brilliant, absurd staging of Eliot’s The Waste Land in the local pub by the... Collection: Single Titles Tags: european film/video, humor, language, poetry	John Smith The Kiss 1999 \| 05:00 Made with Ian Bourn. A depiction of the forced development of a hothouse flower. Organic growth is progressively overtaken by a more sinister mechanical process. "The makers manage very convincingly to wrong-foot the viewer in just... Collection: Single Titles Tags: european film/video, expedition/travel, film or videomaking
John Smith Regression 1999 \| 17:00 A portrait of the artist as a not-so-young man. The filmmaker attempts to enter the digital age by making a new video version of one of his old films. "The award of the Short Film Festival goes to a video in which the reflection of... Collection: Single Titles Tags: aging, european film/video, film or videomaking, humor, language, performance