Guy Sherwin Movies

  • 1978
    Tap

    Tap

    Tap

    01978HD

    Tap
  • 2005
    Vowels & Consonants

    Vowels & Consonants

    Vowels & Consonants

    02005HD

    A film collaboration using six projectors that evolved from Lynn Loo's film o and Guy Sherwin's printer installation bdpq. The images were produced...

    Vowels & Consonants
  • 1977
    Musical Stairs

    Musical Stairs

    Musical Stairs

    01977HD

    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...

    Musical Stairs
  • 1977
    Soundtrack

    Soundtrack

    Soundtrack

    01977HD

    Railway tracks seen from a speeding train are converted into optical sounds.

    Soundtrack
  • 1986
    Salt Water

    Salt Water

    Salt Water

    61986HD

    Reflections in fish tanks in the windows of restaurants in Chinatown, San Francisco, accompanied by sounds of foghorns, passers-by, dining and...

    Salt Water
  • 1998
    Coots

    Coots

    Coots

    01998HD

    Coots
  • 2007
    Optical Sound

    Optical Sound

    Optical Sound

    02007HD

    Film by Guy Sherwin

    Optical Sound
  • 2017
    Paper Landscape #2

    Paper Landscape #2

    Paper Landscape #2

    02017HD

    Sherwin’s 1975 performance 'Paper Landscape' is a live interaction with his on-screen presence, filmed on super 8mm in Epping, London. Forty...

    Paper Landscape #2
  • 2007
    Mobius Loops

    Mobius Loops

    Mobius Loops

    02007HD

    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...

    Mobius Loops
  • 2017
    Nijomasue

    Nijomasue

    Nijomasue

    02017HD

    Made during an artist residency in the rural Nijomasue district of Fukuoka, south Japan. The film features the public information system used to...

    Nijomasue
  • 2013
    Window/Light

    Window/Light

    Window/Light

    02013HD

    Window/Light
  • 1980
    Connemara

    Connemara

    Connemara

    01980HD

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

    Connemara
  • 1998
    Clouds & Wires

    Clouds & Wires

    Clouds & Wires

    01998HD

    Clouds & Wires
  • 1974
    Spirals

    Spirals

    Spirals

    01974HD

    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...

    Spirals
  • 2013
    Guy & Kai

    Guy & Kai

    Guy & Kai

    02013HD

    Guy & Kai
  • 2007
    Notes #2

    Notes #2

    Notes #2

    02007HD

    Optical sound film by Guy Sherwin

    Notes #2
  • 2006
    Bay Bridge from Embarcadero

    Bay Bridge from Embarcadero

    Bay Bridge from Embarcadero

    02006HD

    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...

    Bay Bridge from Embarcadero
  • 2003
    Newsprint #2

    Newsprint #2

    Newsprint #2

    02003HD

    A performance for two projectionists using two 16mm projectors with freeze-frame. This performance version further animates the newspaper text by...

    Newsprint #2
  • 2003
    Cycles #3

    Cycles #3

    Cycles #3

    02003HD

    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...

    Cycles #3
  • 1995
    Under the Freeway

    Under the Freeway

    Under the Freeway

    61995HD

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

    Under the Freeway