Guy Sherwin

Why there is something rather than nothing (2019)

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 visible ...

Nijomasue (2017)

Made during an artist residency in the rural Nijomasue district of Fukuoka, south Japan. ...

Paper Landscape #2 (2017)

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, Japa ...

Light Cycles (2016)

Documentation film of the exhibition 'Light Cycles' by Guy Sherwin which took place at the Christine Park Gallery between the 13th and 27th February 2016. Solo exhibition by prominent British filmmaker Guy Sherwin. The exhibition will include seven film i ...

Short Film Series (2014)

Guy Sherwin's SHORT FILM SERIES was made between 1976 and 2014. Eventually he issued 34 films. Some are single studies of light, focused on the reflections in an eye shot in close-up. Others are domestic, as in the PORTRAIT WITH PARENTS or BREATHING .... M ...

Piano (2013)

Guy & Kai (2013)

Window/Light (2013)

Yi Wei (2011)

Mei (2010)

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

Paper Landscape (2009)

An expanded film performance by Guy Sherwin using a transparent screen and white paint ...

Optical Sound (2007)

Film by Guy Sherwin ...

Notes #2 (2007)

Optical sound film by Guy Sherwin ...

Interval #2 (2007)

Optical sound film by Guy Sherwin ...

Sound Cuts (2007)

"Black film stock is repeatedly cut and rejoined. The cuts are made with the angled blade of a splicer normally used for joining sound film. At each cut we see an angled flash of light followed by a thud of sound. The film combines rhythmic intervals fr ...

Mobius Loops (2007)

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 strip r ...

Bay Bridge from Embarcadero (2006)

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. ...

Vowels & Consonants (2005)

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 by printing letterforms directly onto raw 16mm film, and their shapes make sounds as they pass through the p ...

Cycles #3 (2003)

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 rhythmic pat ...

Filter Beds (1998)

short by Guy Sherwin ...

Gnats (1998)

Cat (1998)

Coots (1998)

Tree Reflection (1998)

Clouds & Wires (1998)

Tree & Cloud (1998)

Animal Studies (1998)

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 well as c ...

Prelude (1996)

short by Guy Sherwin ...

Salt Water (1986)

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, with ...

Messages (1984)

"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 communica ...

Wind & Water (1980)

Connemara (1980)

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

Notes #1 (1979)

Optical sound film by Guy Sherwin ...

Night Train (1979)

The sound of lights passing through a darkened landscape seen from a moving train. ...

Notes (1979)

Made using a super 8 sound camera. The microphone is attached to a stick protruding from the camera, and kept just out of sight. This image-and-sound-gathering device is used to 'play' the open strings of a piano. ...

Eye (1978)

Tap (1978)

Cycle (1978)

Maya (1978)

Light Leaves (1978)

Metronome (1978)

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. ...

Clock & Train (1978)

Breathing (1978)

Barn (1978)

Railings (1977)

"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 partic ...

Musical Stairs (1977)

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 stair ...

Chimney (1977)

Cat on TV (1977)

Swimming (1977)

Columns (1977)

Candle & Clock (1977)

Blink (1977)

Man with Mirror (1976)

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 around the ...

Hand/Shutter (1976)

Window (1976)

Treeline (1976)

Track (1976)

Handcrank Clock (1976)

Vermeer Frames (1976)

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

Portrait with Parents (1975)

Spirals (1974)

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 spiral in ...

Interval (1974)

Optical sound by Guy Sherwin ...

Newsprint #1 (1972)

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 clear 16mm film then punched out the sprocket holes to enable the film to run through the projector. Using a st ...

Cycles #1 (1972)

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 simultaneously into ...

Phase Loop (1971)

Optical sound film by Guy Sherwin ...

Guy & Kai (2013)

New Shores (2012)

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 the W ...

Paper Landscape (2009)

An expanded film performance by Guy Sherwin using a transparent screen and white paint ...

Messages (1984)

"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 communica ...

Hand/Shutter (1976)

Handcrank Clock (1976)

Portrait with Parents (1975)