press

Selected press, reviews and interviews. For enquiries, review copies or stills, email chris@citizensmith.net.

New Town Utopia — reviews

• The Guardian ★★★★ — “Absorbing and heartening”, Peter Bradshaw
• The Times ★★★★ — “Consistently fascinating, unfolds like a warning from history”, Kevin Maher
• Financial Times ★★★★ — “An ode to the unique moment when post-war Britain allowed itself to dream”
• The Big Issue — “New Town Utopia” bids you welcome to the concrete bungle

New Town Utopia — features and interviews

• The Daily Telegraph — Radical Essex: discover a side of the county you never knew
• BBC Radio 3 — The Verb
• British Council Film — New Town Utopia in the UK Films Database
• Flux Magazine — Interview with director Christopher Ian Smith
• Architecture Film Festival Rotterdam — Christopher Ian Smith on New Town Utopia
• IMDb — Interview: Christopher Ian Smith talks New Town Utopia
• ITV News — report and interview with the director
• IndieWire — Project of the Day: New Town Utopia
• ArchDaily — What happened when we built utopia?
• The Architect’s Newspaper — New documentary explores the fate of British new town utopia
• World Architecture — Utopian dreams and concrete realities
• AnotherMag — Eight emerging photographers you need to know about
• International Business Times — Highlights from Format International Photography Festival
• Elsewhere Journal — New Town Utopia
• The Long + The Short — New Towns
• PLACE — Exclusive film preview: New Town Utopia
• East London Guardian — Concrete jungles caught on film
• Yellow Advertiser — Oscar-winning actor Jim Broadbent signs up to narrate documentary
• Yellow Advertiser — Basildon documentary tells how greed paved over paradise
• Yellow Advertiser — Basildon artists to explore town’s demise in Kickstarter documentary
• Creative Digest — Basildon film launches Kickstarter campaign
• Phoenix FM — interview with the director
• Unstable Praxis — New Town Utopia
• Foxhole — Concrete Dreams

Sulphur

• Psychogeographic Review — Sulphur: interview with director Christopher Ian Smith
• Modern Mythology — The spirit of place
• We Are Cult — review of Sulphur

Arterial

• The Wordsworth Trust — From stanza to screen: how a Keats poem is inspiring 21st-century film-makers
• The Kissed Mouth — Short film: Arterial
• Culture Magazine — Short film: Arterial

Cumulus

• Vice / The Creators Project — Making a film from social media
• JWT Intelligence — Interview with independent filmmaker Christopher Ian Smith

Addictive TV

• Skiddle — Optronica Festival launches at BFI Southbank
• NoTV — Addictive TV perform live with Anton Corbijn in Amsterdam
• DJ Mag — Addictive TV voted No.1 VJs in the world
• DJ Mag — Addictive TV judge the T-Scan Awards
• Graphic — The future of VJing