Clément Colliaux, John Smith, L’Expérimentation Espiègle de Heureux Accidents, Critikat, posted 7 November 2023
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Sophia Satchell-Baeza, “I Don’t Want to Make Films for Elites”: An Interview with John Smith, MUBI Notebook, posted 5 October 2022
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Erika Balsom, John Smith’s ‘Covid Messages’, Moving Image Review and Art Journal, Volume 9/2, 2021
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Nicholas Burman, The City & The City: An Interview with John Smith, The Quietus, posted 13 March 2021
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Ian Christie, John Smith in the Time of Covid, Sight & Sound, British Film Institute, posted 26 January 2021
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Pia Bolognesi, The Man Girl Phoning Chewing Mum Gum, Mousse magazine, February/March 2017
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Federico Rossin, John Smith: Fragment d’une Oeuvre, Etats Généraux du Film Documentaire festival catalogue, France, August 2016
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Patrick Wright, Dalston, Then and Now: An Interview with John Smith in In Focus: The Girl Chewing Gum by Erika Balsom, Tate website, posted September 2015
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Emilie Bujès, Genre Bending and Experimental Comedy: the work of John Smith, La Galerie, Noisy-le-Sec, Le Baiser exhibition catalogue, France, September 2014
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Ben Rowley, In Conversation with John Smith, Sidney Cooper Gallery, Canterbury, exhibition catalogue, UK, January 2014
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Tom Harrad, Interview with John Smith, The White Review, UK, January 2014
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Mark Prince, Waiting Game, Art Monthly magazine, UK, April 2012
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Gilad Melzer, The Foreign Observer: Gilad Melzer Talks to John Smith, Ma’arav, Israel, November 2011
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Stuart Comer, Funny Games, Artforum magazine, USA, May 2011
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Nick Bradshaw, John Smith: Of Process and Puns, Sight & Sound magazine, UK, May 2010
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Louise Brealey, Citizen Smith, Wonderland magazine, UK, August / September 2008
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Brian Frye, Interview with John Smith, Millennium Film Journal, USA, Winter 2003
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Cate Elwes, Trespassing Beyond the Frame, Filmwaves magazine, UK, Autumn 2001
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Video interviews and podcasts
Art Monthly Talk Show: John Smith
Interviewed by Alex Hull about Citadel and Covid Messages, Resonance FM, 14 June 2021
Listen to podcast
How to Enjoy Experimental Film: John Smith
Interviewed by Dan Adams, June 2021
Listen to podcast (part 1 ‘Associations’)
Listen to podcast (part 2 ‘Seriously Playful’)
Paranoia TV, Steirischer Herbst Festival, Austria
Conversation about Citadel and Covid Messages with Christoph Platz , 26 September 2020
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Suite (212) Sessions no. 15: John Smith
Interviewed by Juliet Jacques, June 2020
Listen to podcast
John Smith: Improvising behind the camera
Interviewed by Richard West, April 2019
Listen to podcast
John Smith – Playing with the Power of Language
Tate Shots, posted 19 June 2018
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Architecture on Film: John Smith’s London, Barbican Cinema, London, England, 2013
Post screening discussion with Ian Christie and Q & A with audience. Programme included The Girl Chewing Gum, Hackney Marshes – November 4th 1977, The Black Tower, Blight, Lost Sound.
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Art Party Conference, Scarborough, England, 2013
Interview with Gilane Tawadros.
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Friday Event, Glasgow School of Art, Scotland, 2008
Lecture and screening. Video includes Om, Gargantuan, The Girl Chewing Gum, Blight, Worst Case Scenario and Pyramids / Skunk.
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