John Smith (filmmaker)

John Smith (filmmaker)

John Smith (b. 1952, London, England) is an avant garde filmmaker noted for his use of humour in exploring various themes that often play upon film spectator's conditioned assumptions of the medium. Noted works include The Girl Chewing Gum (1976), Om (1987), The Kiss (1999) and Blight (1999).


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