DAISY SMITH 

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Der Gruftwächter 2025

Between his responsibilities caring for his elderly father, Owen Bedrag - a security guard outsourced by the local municipality - patrols a Welsh seaside village. His fixation on what he views as transgressions committed by both locals and tourists soon consumes his time and labour. Despite his rigourous training in Chester, offenders repeatedly elude him. With performances by Martin Lysfoss Gunnerfeldt, Anthony Morris, Åsa Båve, Joe Wilcox, Côr y Gors and Elsi Williams.



Gamesters (pt.1) 2025
Missing-Out with George McGoldrick @ The Crooked Studio, Rotterdam
Photo Lotte Stekelenburg. 



Comfort 2023
16’00’’
Produced with support from the Dommering Foundation. 
Link to trailer: https://vimeo.com/874373349
Photo Gert van Rooij @ De Ateliers, Amsterdam

Evangeline Dobbs, played here by two Amsterdammers and my mum, traverses night shifts, workplace reviews, environmental change, national borders and physical discomfort in her quest to make an honest living. Her son, training for a war that never arrives, takes advantage of the time afforded to him by her developed routines.


Nightcore 2023
27’30’’
Link to trailer: https://vimeo.com/788052259/60d8587243
Photo Gert van Rooij @ De Ateliers, Amsterdam

Wharram Percy is a deserted mediaeval village in Yorkshire, England. Its demise is narrated by Tony, a retired farm labourer and amateur champion fish breeder. As his story unravels he is interrupted by the fate of his own village (Linton-on-Ouse), a troupe of Freestyle dancers and a paranormal society. These narratives converge across varying time periods and geographies to describe a recurring English history of evictions from land and property.

‘In short film Nightcore, different stories fluidly merge into a fascinating fable on testimony, class and superstition.’ - Dominic van den Boogerd



Lily at Home 2023
4’20’’
Photo Gert Jan van Rooij @ Woonhuis, Amsterdam
Link: https://vimeo.com/802247156



(Dirt) 2020
3’01’’
Link: https://vimeo.com/350632070/d5d9c54d0d


SO IT’S BEEN DENIED, 2021
2’30’’
Link to excerpt: https://vimeo.com/517745657/a49aaaf489


‘alrigh’t ‘alright’ ‘alri’ght ‘aight’ 2018 @ Modern Art Oxford, Oxford


Extension (For Len Blavatnik) 2018
5’09’’