Movies: Guy Sherwin

Sherwin’s 1975 performance 'Paper Landscape' is a live interaction with his on-screen presence, filmed on super 8mm in Epping, London. Forty years later he has re-worked the idea for digital video and sound – recorded in the rice fields of Itoshima, ...

Film by Guy Sherwin...

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This is a live projection event for two 16mm projectors and two loudspeakers. The material in Cycles (1972/77) is recycled for two screens and two soundtracks, with one screen set inside another, giving rise to a surprising induced colours and rhythm...

Reflections in fish tanks in the windows of restaurants in Chinatown, San Francisco, accompanied by sounds of foghorns, passers-by, dining and breaking waves. Shot on Super 8, the images oscillate between abstraction, documentary portrait and poetry,...

My youngest daughter, Mei, a few days after I helped deliver her (the midwife arrived too late)....

Street-life at a busy intersection beneath a freeway in San Francisco. An urban landscape film with an underlying formal structure....

An ongoing set of films of inconsequential animal movements which are hand-printed in a variety of ways, using changes of light, geometry, time. These processes reveal what might be hidden in the frames and photographic depths of the material, as wel...

Silent short film by Guy Sherwin as part of his Short Film series in which he captures everyday life, diary like subjects....

Optical sound film by Guy Sherwin...

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There is something exhilarating about observing an artistic star that shines at the edge of the cosmos, and steadfastly refuses to move to the centre, that even seems to vanish beyond the periphery as time and fashion move on, only for it to become v...

"One of a series of films that investigates qualities of sound that can be generated directly from the image track. The images that you see are simultaneously scanned by the optical sound reader in the projector, which converts the into sound. This ...

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