Michael Archer, Composition, Ilex, UK 2023
Erika Balsom, The Chronicles of John Smith in John Smith – Waldeinsamkeit – Films from the 21st Century, catalogue for solo exhibition at Kunstmuseum Magdeburg, eds. Annegret Laabs and Uwe Gellner, Verlag für moderne Kunst, Austria 2022
read essay
Anton Holzer, Ein Mann steht am Fenster: zu John Smiths Film Worst Case Scenario in Augenblick! Strassenfotografie in Wien (cat.), Wien Museum, Austria 2022
Eds. Simon Payne and Andrew Vallance, Made in London (conversation between John Smith and William Raban) in Film Talks: 15 Conversations on Experimental Cinema, Contact, UK 2021
read conversation
A L Rees, Room Films in Fields of View, ed. Simon Payne, British Film Institute, UK 2020
John Smith, Artists’ Moving Image in Britain since 1989, eds. Erika Balsom, Lucy Reynolds, Sarah Perks, Yale University Press, USA 2019
read artist’s pages
Albert Alcoz, The Girl Chewing Gum in Radicales Libres: 50 peliculas esenciales del cine experimental (Free Radicals: 50 essential films of experimental cinema), Obetta UOC Publishing, Spain 2019
Rob Walker, The Art of Noticing, Ebury Press, UK 2019
Gabriel Menotti, Movie Circuits: Curatorial Approaches to Cinema Technology, Amsterdam University Press, Netherlands 2019
Mélanie van der Hoorn, Blight, in Spots in Shots: Narrating the Built Environment in Short Films, nai010 Publishers, Netherlands 2018, read essay
Mark Prince, Waiting Game, in Talking Art 2: Art Monthly interviews with artists since 2007, ed. Patricia Bickers, Ridinghouse and Art Monthly, UK 2018
read interview in magazine
Andy Birtwistle, Meaning and Musicality: Sound-Image Relations in the Films of John Smith, in The Music and Sound of Experimental Film, eds. Holly Rogers and Jeremy Barham, Oxford University Press, USA 2017, read essay
Federico Windhausen, Suspended in Light: Eight Films made in London between 1970 and 1975, in Shoot Shoot Shoot: The First Decade of the London Film-Makers’ Co-operative, ed. Mark Webber, LUX, UK 2016
David Campbell and Mark Durden, Double Act: Art and Comedy, Bluecoat, UK 2016, read catalogue text
Homay King, Virtual Memory: Time-Based Art and the Dream of Digitality, Duke University Press, USA 2015
Laurence Boyce, Short Films, in Directory of World Cinema: Britain 2, ed. Neil Mitchell, Intellect Books, UK 2015
Lili Reynaud-Dewar, I am John Smith (You are also John Smith, we are John Smith, here’s how to be John Smith), read essay (English), read essay (French) in John Smith: Le Baiser (cat.), La Galerie, Noisy-le Sec, France 2014
Andy Birtwistle, Listen, read essay in John Smith (cat.), Sidney Cooper Gallery, UK 2014
Ed. Ana Teixeira Pinto, The Reluctant Narrator (cat.), Museo Colecao Berardo / Sternberg Press, Portugal / Germany 2014
Martin Herbert, Mediate the Immediate: On John Smith, read essay; Kathrin Meyer, John Smith’s The Black Tower: Close-up Views of What Cannot Be Shown, read essay; Ethan de Seife, John Smith and his Gargantuan Newt, read essay; Ian Christie, English Eccentric, read essay; in John Smith, eds. Tanya Leighton and Kathrin Meyer, Mousse Publishing, Italy and Sternberg Press, Germany 2013
Tom Holert, Visual Antagonisms and a Critique of the Frame in Image Counter Image (cat.) Haus Der Kunst, Munich, Walther König, Germany 2012
John Smith: Worst Case Scenario (cat.), Weserburg Museum für Moderne Kunst, Bremen, Germany 2012
Rod Stoneman, The Girl Chewing Gum: The Time that Cinema Forgot, read essay; Jennifer Procter, The Tragedy of the Unreliable Narrator in The Girl Chewing Gum, read essay; Paula Quigley, The Man Giving Orders: The Girl Chewing Gum, read essay; Lavinia Brydon, Brief Encounter: The Girl Chewing Gum, read essay; Michael Rabiger, Much from Little, read essay; Richard Raskin and Brian Frye, Interviews with John Smith on The Girl Chewing Gum, in Short Film Studies, ed. Richard Raskin, Intellect Books, UK, Spring 2012
Gemma Lloyd and Gareth Bell-Jones, John Smith Returns; Thomas Cuckle, A Pause for Reflection; John Smith in Conversation with RCA Students in John Smith: Solo Show (cat.), Royal College of Art, London, UK 2010
Andy Birtwistle, Cinesonica: Sounding Film and Video, Manchester University Press, UK 2010
Eds. Dieter Daniels and Sandra Naumann, See This Sound – Audiovisuology Compendium, Walther König, Germany 2010
Paul Young, Art Cinema, Taschen, USA 2009
Michael Chanan, The Politics of Documentary, British Film Institute, UK 2007
David Curtis, A History of Artists’ Film and Video in Britain, 1897-2004, British Film Institute, UK 2007
John Smith, Silent Film in Vertov from Z to A, eds. Peggy Ahwesh & Keith Sanborn, Ediciones la Calavera, USA 2007
Sally O’Reilly, Return of the Black Tower (after John Smith) (cat.), PEER Gallery, London, UK 2007
A noir, E blanc, I rouge, U vert, O bleu FARBEN (cat.), Kunstmuseum Magdeburg, Kerber, Germany 2007
Sounddesign · Sound-Montage · Soundtrack-Komposition, Prof. Jörg U. Lensing, Mediabook, Germany 2006
Joe Moran, Reading the Everyday, Routledge, UK 2005
Peter Kremski, Überraschende Begegnung der Kurzen Art, (interview), International Short Film Festival Oberhausen, Germany 2005
John Smith – London & Other Worlds (cat.), Kunstmuseum Magdeburg, Germany 2005
A L Rees, Surprise, Engage and Delight – The Films of John Smith, International Short Film Festival Winterthur (cat.), Switzerland 2004
Nicky Hamlyn, Film Art Phenomena, British Film Institute, UK 2003
Cornelia Parker, John Smith’s body, read essay; A L Rees, Associations: John Smith and the artists’ film in the UK, read essay; Ian Bourn, The Sound of Loss, read essay; Nicky Hamlyn, John Smith’s local locations, read essay; Cate Elwes, Trespassing beyond the frame (interview) in John Smith – Film and Video Works 1972-2002, Picture This Moving Image/Watershed Media Centre, UK 2002
Eds. Eileen Elsey and Andrew Kelly, In Short – A Guide to Short Filmmaking in the Digital Age, (interview), British Film Institute, UK 2002
Michael Maziere, John Smith’s Films: Reading the Visible in The Undercut Reader – Critical Writings on Artists’ Film and Video, Wallflower Press, UK 2002
Live In Your Head – Concept & Experiment in Britain 1965-1975 (cat.), Whitechapel Gallery, London, UK 2000
A L Rees, A History of Experimental Film and Video, British Film Institute, UK 1999
A Directory of British Film & Video Artists, Arts Council/University of Luton Press, UK 1995
Kristin Thompson & David Bordwell, Film History – An Introduction, McGraw – Hill, USA 1994
John Smith, Fortunata & Heckles and Hackles in Brought to Book, eds. Ian Breakwell & Paul Hammond, Penguin, UK 1994
The Elusive Sign – British Avant-Garde Film & Video 1977-1987 (cat.), Arts Council of Great Britain, British Council, UK 1988
The British Art Show (cat.), Orbis/Arts Council, UK 1984
The Other Side: European Avant-Garde Cinema 1960-80 (cat.), American Federation of Arts, USA 1983
A Perspective on English Avant-Garde Film (cat.), Arts Council/British Council, UK 1978