John Smith, throughout his 40-year career, has approached the moving image from film, video and installations, generating a tremendous body of work that’s as diverse in its topics as it is in its methods. Weaving between early structuralist film and more personal, diaristic, documentary approaches to the places in which he lived, most notably London, his output is both broad and varied. This dialogue, conducted with VDB Director Abina Manning, spans the whole of his artistic production but particular time in the interview is spent on his early years, before his status as an artist was cemented.