Sam Smith

Personal Info

Known For Director

Gender Male

Place of Birth Sydney, Australia

Sam Smith

Biography

Sam Smith (b. Sydney, Australia) is a filmmaker working within experimental documentary form and artist moving image. He is the founder of Hide Film, a production studio specialising in artist film and cinema, based in Bradford on Avon, South West England. By querying the manipulations inherent in moving image capture and production, his work brings documentary and archival content in contact with speculative narratives. Smith is also the Co-Director of Obsidian Coast with Nella Aarne, an entity for exhibitions, artist/filmmaker residencies and events with a commitment to artist moving image and environmentally sustainable and feminist practice. Smith's films, video installations and live desktop performances have has been presented at numerous international art institutions and film festivals including International Film Festival Rotterdam, Kassel Documentary Film and Video Festival, Kai Art Center (Tallinn), Gotland Konstmuseet and Sörmlands Museum (Sweden), Whitechapel Gallery and Institute of Contemporary Arts (London), Moscow International Experimental Film Festival, Les Rencontres Internationales (Paris and Berlin), Tai Kwun Centre for Heritage and Arts (Hong Kong) De Appel Arts Centre (Amsterdam) E-WERK (Freiburg), Riga International Short Film Festival 2ANNAS, Kunsthal Charlottenborg (Copenhagen), The Telfer Gallery for Glasgow International 2016, Centro de Artes Visuais (Portugal), Australian Centre for Moving Image (Melbourne), KW Institute for Contemporary Art (Berlin) and the Art Gallery of NSW (Sydney).

Known For

Director

2020
Lithic Coda

as Director

2019
2016
E.1027

as Director

2016
2006
Hollywood Burn

as Director

Editor

2020
Lithic Coda

as Editor

2019
2018
Terror Nullius

as Color Grading

2016

Sound

2023
Hello Dankness

as Sound Designer

2018
Terror Nullius

as Sound Designer

Visual Effects

2023
Hello Dankness

as Visual Effects

2019
Lithic Choreographies

as Visual Effects

2018
Terror Nullius

as Visual Effects Compositor

Camera

2019
Lithic Choreographies

as Director of Photography

Writer

2019

Producer

2019

Crew

2020
Lithic Coda

as Cinematography