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Looking at John Smith's Films

  • Writer: Helen Edgeworth
    Helen Edgeworth
  • May 4, 2020
  • 1 min read

Updated: Jun 4, 2020

The Black Tower [1987]

  • The long black video keeps audience interest with narration

  • The audience is waiting for a reveal

  • Repetition of the Black Tower keeps the intrigue, you want to know its meaning

  • Where there is no narration, Smith uses the visuals of the Tower

  • 2nd half of the film links to current Covid-19 lockdown - views from windows

  • The tower is a metaphor


OM [1986]

  • Sound is repetitive and irritating

  • Misleading

  • Ask questions about our preconceptions? and how they may be false

 
 
 

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