John Smith Films

On the Street where You Live: The Films of John Smith
Adrian Danks, Senses of Cinema online magazine (2003)
See article

Interview with John Smith
Bryan Frye, Millennium Film Journal issue 39/40 (2003)
See interview

John Smith
Essay by Michael O’Pray, Luxonline artists’ film and video site (2003)
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Pushed to the Limit - Films and Videos by John Smith
Fred Camper, Chicago Reader (2001)
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Om – From Monk to Skinhead in Three Minutes
Review (in German) of John Smith's films on 3sat Television by Florian Krautkrämer, Cinetramp online magazine (2004)
See review

The World is Within
Review (in Dutch) of ‘Hotel Diaries’ by Dana Linnsen in Filmkrant online magazine (issue 272, December 2005)
See review

Further information about John Smith’s work
(including complete bibliography)
http://www.luxonline.org.uk/artists/john_smith

selected bibliography

John Smith - Film and Video Works 1972-2002 ed. Josephine Lanyon and Mark Cosgrove, Picture This Moving Image/Watershed Media Centre 2002, ISBN 0-9539872-4-8 (136 pages, includes essays by A L Rees, Cornelia Parker, Ian Bourn, Nicky Hamlyn and an interview with Catherine Elwes).

A Directory of British Film & Video Artists Arts Council/University of Luton Press 1995 ISBN 1-86020-003-6

A History of Experimental Film and Video A.L. Rees, British Film Institute 1999, ISBN 0-85170-81-9

The Undercut Reader - Critical Writings on Artists' Film and Video eds. Nina Danino and Michael Maziere, Wallflower Press 2002, ISBN 1-903364-47-7 (includes essay ‘John Smith’s Films: Reading the Visible’ by Michael Maziere)

48th International Short Film Festival Oberhausen Catalogue 2002, ISBN 3-87468-187-4 (John Smith retrospective, includes essay ‘Information: Suspect, Construction: Evident’ by Ian White)

In Short - A Guide to Short Filmmaking in the Digital Age ed. Eileen Elsey and Andrew Kelly, British Film Institute 2002, ISBN 0-85170-893-5 (includes interview with John Smith)

Film Art Phenomena Nicky Hamlyn, British Film Institute 2003, ISBN 0-85170-972-9

Reading the Everyday Joe Moran, Routledge 2005, ISBN 0-415-31709-6

John Smith – London & Other Worlds Catalogue for retrospective exhibition at Kunstmuseum Magdeburg, 2005, ISBN 3-930030-75-6 (in German)

Überraschende Begegnung der Kurzen Art ed. Peter Kremski, International Short Film Festival Oberhausen 2005, ISBN 3-9806313-5-4 (in German, includes interview with John Smith)

Sounddesign · Sound-Montage · Soundtrack-Komposition Prof. Jörg U. Lensing, Mediabook 2006, ISBN 3 - 93 77 08 - 05 7 (in German)

A History of Artists' Film and Video in Britain, 1897-2004 David Curtis, British Film Institute 2007, ISBN 1844570967

The Politics of Documentary Michael Chanan, British Film Institute 2007, ISBN 978-1-84457-226-7

Art Cinema Paul Young, Taschen 2009, ISBN 978-3-8228-3594-4