John Smith – Slow Glass (1991)

Alexander Stewart, notes for screening at Pioneer Works, New York 2015, wrote:
A mesmerizing experimental documentary that presents a discussion of the manufacture of glass as a way to explore memory and transformation. Filled with Smith’s signature witty wordplay and elegant visual punning, Slow Glass also quietly ponders weighter issues of urban transformation and the value placed on craftsmanship.

Jim Supanick, As a Chimney Draws, 2012, wrote:
It’s a special sensitivity that can extract true visual poetry from pub interiors and charmless London street corners, and something much, much more to integrate this dense web of visual and verbal association around the ostensible theme of glass. Drawing on a panopoly of camera and editing tricks and conjoined with a glazier’s nostalgic reveries, Smith expresses a great deal about vision and optics, the changing city, obsolescent craft traditions, and a more elusive sense of loss.

John Smith - 1991 - Slow Glass [DVD-PAL].mkv

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Container:  	Matroska
Runtime: 	40 min 9 s
Size: 	1.02 GiB
Video
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Resolution: 	716x574 ~> 765x574
Aspect ratio:  	4:3
Frame rate: 	25.000 fps
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BPP: 	0.328
Audio
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https://nitro.download/view/0A5675E630CD074/John_Smith_-_1991_-_Slow_Glass__DVD-PAL_.mkv

Language(s):English
Subtitles:None