Movies: Guy Sherwin

NEW SHORES is a sister film to IN THE STONE HOUSE in many ways. Like the latter film, it consists of earlier footage edited in recent years. It could be seen as a sequel to IN THE STONE HOUSE especially since it begins with a cross-country journey to...

Bachs Prelude No. 24 in B-minor from Das wohltemporierte Klavier, performed by various pianists, is juxtaposed with pictures of a moving train....

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I had rooms at the front and back of the house and I recorded sunlight passing through them in the course of the day, as well as across the buildings seen from the windows. Sometimes I would set the time-lapse camera running and go off to work, leavi...

One of a series of films that uses soundtracks generated directly from their own imagery. I shot the images of a staircase specifically for the range of sounds they would produce. I used a fixed lens to film from a fixed position at the bottom of the...

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9 mins b/w Silent 16 mm for 3x16 mm projectors, or 2x16mm projectors, overlapping; can be shown as a performance or installation. Similar views of the same urban scene combined in projection....

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Mile End Purgatorio is Guy Sherwin and Martin Doyle’s one minute hymn to the London road via its shop signs. A heady rapid-fire brew of Dante, Shakespeare, the Bible and William Blake, its visual text is storefront correlated, its theme the crisis on...

short by Guy Sherwin...

short film by Guy Sherwin...

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Made while on a visit to Connemara in Ireland, the film is partly a response to the sense of time that the landscape evoked....

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Part of Sherwin's short film series. "...In the shuddering stasis of METRONOME– an illusion caused by the clash between the spring-wound mechanisms of the Bolex camera and of the metronome itself." -Film-Makers' Co-Op...