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Director
  
John Smith

Producer
  
John Smith

Country
  
UK

6.8/10
IMDb

Genre
  
Short

Narrator
  
John Smith

Duration
  

Language
  
English

The Girl Chewing Gum movie poster
Cast
  
John Smith

Release date
  
1976

Similar movies
  
The Black Tower (1987), Boy and Bicycle (1997), Day for Night (1973), Dear Phone, The Sheep Thief (1997)

The Girl Chewing Gum is a 1976 British short film directed by John Smith. The film is widely acknowledged as one of the most important avant-garde films of the 20th century.

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The film was inspired by a scene in Francois Truffauts 1973 film Day for Night in which the director gives instructions to the actors, and even tells a dog to urinate on a lamppost.

“I am writing this with a black ‘Tempo’ fibre-tip pen. A few months ago, I bought fifteen of these pens for sixty pence. Unfortunately, because they are so common, other people pick them up, thinking they are theirs. I bought the pens from a market in Kingsland Road in Hackney, about a hundred yards from where the film was shot. The film draws attention to the cinematic codes and illusions it incorporates by denying their existence, treating representation as absolute reality.” John Smith, 1976

Plot summary

At Stamford Road in Dalston Junction of east London, the camera follows pedestrians, cars and birds while a narrator, who appears to be the director behind the camera, seems to instruct the objects.

Similar works

  • 1973: The French film Day for Night by Francois Truffaut
  • 2011: The 2 min 28 sec Swedish short film Fagel daruppe by Marten Nilsson
  • References

    The Girl Chewing Gum Wikipedia
    The Girl Chewing Gum IMDb The Girl Chewing Gum themoviedb.org