This comprehensive new monograph on the influential British artist-filmmaker—renown for his playful and formally ingenious subversion of the everyday world—contains essays by Ian Christie, Martin Herbert, Kathrin Meyer, and Ethan de Seife.

The catalogue accompanying the international group exhibition is dedicated to the mutually permeating relationship of the written word with art and film.

John Smith’s films unfold at the intersection of conceptual art, structural film, and documentary practice, drawing consistently on his own life and immediate surroundings.