John Smith (English filmmaker)

John Smith (born 1952, Walthamstow, England) is a British avant garde filmmaker noted for his use of humour in exploring various themes that often play upon the film spectator's conditioned assumptions of the medium.

His film The Girl Chewing Gum has been called[1] one of the most important avant-garde films of the 20th century.[2]

  1. ^ "John Smith at Tanya Leighton Berlin". Retrieved 18 November 2022.
  2. ^ Program for Uppsala International Short Film Festival 2011, p. 21.