John Smith
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Emerging from East London, the avant-garde filmmaker studied film at the Royal College of Art, where exposure to conceptual art, structural cinema and spoken word shaped his practice. While still a student he produced The Girl Chewing Gum (1976), a two-shot piece narrated by himself that directs the movements of pedestrians, pigeons and objects, a work later hailed as a landmark of 20th-century ex…
Biography written by WatchMoods, based on public sources