John Smith: Waldeinsamkeit. Films from the 21st Century (Signed) Mick RonsonVFMK, 2022, Softcover, 120 pages, 30 21 cm It is said that the word "Waldeinsamkeit" is increasingly circulating in England. The supposedly German phenomenon is in the trend of visiting the forest as a retreat to be alone. John Smith is fascinated by this loanword from German Romanticism as a current phenomenon and thus describes a foray through the two most recent decades of his work. Beginning as an experimental and short film maker, Smith was
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