John Smith early shorts

27 May, 6.30pm

Filmhouse Cinema Edinburgh, 88 Lothian Road, EH3 9BZ

Reduced ticket price of £5

To coincide with the exhibition It’s a Beautiful World Rhubaba presents a screening of British Filmaker John Smith’s early short films. The artists in the show and the films of John Smith share a contemplative and inquisitive sensibility, highlighting moments of mystery and wonder found within their immediate surroundings. This programme gathers together his earliest films including The Girl Chewing Gum (1976) in which we encounter an overtly constructed narrative where even the pigeons find themselves directed.

“Smith’s world is seen through a prism of humour, absurdity and easy-going but formally rich structures … it is through Smith’s fundamental humanism pervaded by sadness that art comes to offer its restorative power, whilst always remaining grounded in the world as we experience it.” (Michael O’Pray)

Screening order

Associations (1975, 7 min),

 

The Girl Chewing Gum (1976, 12 min),

 

The Black Tower (1985-1987, 24 min),

 

OM (1986, 4 min),

 

Slow Glass (1988-1991, 40 min)

Courtesy of Lux