Noah David Smith
Directing
Biography
Noah David Smith is a photographer and filmmaker whose work captures the quotidian beauty of our ephemeral world. His technique is deeply rooted in city streets, rural landscapes, and portraiture. Noah’s imagery resonates with a distinct sense of mood, place and metaphor.
Known For
Just as Amelia thinks she's over her anxiety and insecurity, her best friend announces her engagement, bringing her anxiety and insecurity right back.
Walking and Talking
Disappearing Man is an intimate film portrait of TriBeCa artist Robert Janz - whose ephemeral, streetscape water paintings reflect on the impermanence of the artist’s own life. Robert Janz’s unique artistic medium is water on brick, stone or concrete. He paints totemic words on New York City façades and sidewalks. Janz’s self-erasing word paintings challenge the serendipitous viewer to reflect on the contradictory nature of artistic practices that often capture and immortalize both a fleeting moment in time and the mortal artist that captured it. In capturing this story of the artist at work, the film evokes Janz’s philosophical musings on practicing an art form that is very much a metaphor for his own mortality. Both the filmmaker and the viewer clearly become not just observers but students of Janz and his art.
The Disappearing Man
An aspiring photographer balances responsibilities of caring for an ailing grandmother and an internship with an aging photo artist.