Movies: Guy Sherwin
- 1971
Phase Loop (1971)
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Optical sound film by Guy Sherwin...
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- 1977
Columns (1977)
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- 1998
Clouds & Wires (1998)
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- 1976
Man with Mirror (1976)
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The filmmaker's live interaction with his on-screen image which is projected onto a hand-held mirrored screen.The screen is white one side and mirrored the other, and is used by the performer to either 'catch' the projected image, or reflect it aroun...
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- 1974
Spirals (1974)
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A film made without a camera in which both image and sound are the result of the same chemical process. Raw film was spooled onto a spiral and partially submerged in developer, so that only half the film is developed, leaving the trace of a time spir...
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- 1978
Clock & Train (1978)
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- 1976
Window (1976)
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- 2009
Paper Landscape (2009)
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An expanded film performance by Guy Sherwin using a transparent screen and white paint...
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- 1978
Light Leaves (1978)
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- 2003
Newsprint #2 (2003)
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A performance for two projectionists using two 16mm projectors with freeze-frame. This performance version further animates the newspaper text by using intermittent projection, pausing and re-starting the film on its way through the projector. The p...
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- 2007
Mobius Loops (2007)
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A performance work for multiple projectors in which the starting point is my sound & image experiments of the 70s. The film and sound material was prepared in one simple action by bleaching away the side of a length of black leader, leaving a clear s...
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- 1984
Messages (1984)
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"Made during my daughter’s early childhood. It’s not about her, but it’s a response to her questions about the world that implicitly challenge things we take for granted – the visual appearance of the world, ambiguities in language, the ways we commu...
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- 2007
Cross Section #2 (2007)
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Optical sound film by Guy Sherwin...
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- 1998
Tree Reflection (1998)
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- 1972
Cycles #1 (1972)
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A hand-made film of a circular form that fluctuates in rhythms of light and sound.Cycles 1 is made by sticking paper dots onto the surface of the film and to its (optical) sound track. On projection these separate instants are converted simultaneousl...
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- 1978
Barn (1978)
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- 1977
Candle & Clock (1977)
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- 1974
Interval (1974)
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Optical sound by Guy Sherwin...
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- 1972
Sound Shapes (1972)
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One of my first 16mm films, made without a camera as an experiment in how to visualize rhythm. It equates four simple shapes with four simple sounds, made by punching shapes into black film and scratching into the film's optical sound track. The fil...
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- 1979
Night Train (1979)
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The sound of lights passing through a darkened landscape seen from a moving train....
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