Guy Sherwin Movies

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...

Optical sound film by Guy Sherwin

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

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...

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

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...

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

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...

Optical sound film by Guy Sherwin

Optical sound by Guy Sherwin

"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...

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...

A film made without a camera: A newspaper glued onto clear film is projected as audio-visual typography. "For NEWSPRINT I glued a newspaper onto...

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

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