Stuart Sherman

Don't Hang Up I'm Freezing (1993)

"Brrr! I'm so cold I could eat a phone book. ...

John Cage: Man and Myth (1990)

An experimental documentary that looks at its subject John Cage through the eyes of contemporary Avante-Garde artists as well as those who play his music. ...

Black-Eyed Susan: Portrait of an Actress (1989)

A short film about the actress Black-Eyed Susan ...

Berlin-Tour (1989)

Short film directed by Stuart Sherman ...

Eating (1986)

The Discovery of the Phonograph (1986)

Mr. Ashley Proposes (Portrait of George) (1985)

Portrait of Benedicte Pesle (1984)

Fish Story (1983)

A naked man jumps off the deep end from a diving board into a surrealist watery world of fish and cellar stairs. ...

Typewriting (Pertaining to Stefan Brecht) (1982)

Golf Film (1982)

Bridge Film (1981)

The filmmaker intersects the flow of traffic on narrow streets and on the canals of a European city. ...

Racing (1981)

Fountain/Car (1980)

Rock/String (1980)

The filmmaker effects a variety of visual tricks that confound spatial relationships and defy gravity. ...

Elevator/Dance (1980)

Sherman creates an elegant, graphically precise choreographed dance from the rhythmic, symmetrical movements of two elevators, two escalators and their two riders (a man and a woman) tethered to the aural image of an imposing jukebox. ...

Theatre Piece (1980)

Through "solipsistic, demiurgic actions," Sherman leaves his imprint on the theater world. He sits in a seat in the audience, occupies a chair onstage and stands at the door of the theater. Becoming transparent, he leaves his trace everywhere. ...

Flying (1979)

Baseball/TV (1979)

Using the accoutrements of baseball, Sherman analyzes the magic of tv/film representation and offers a pun on the word "catch." "The camera catches the image, just as a baseball player catches the ball. ...

Piano/Music (1979)

Roller Coaster/Reading (1979)

Meshing the visceral and the intellectual, "Sherman proposes, through editing and parallel camera movement, that the act of reading is exhilarating, like riding a roller coaster. ...

Skating (1978)

Juxtaposition and editing are used in this meditation on the human/environmental act of skating and its component parts. ...

Tree Film (1978)

Edwin Denby (1978)

Camera/Cage (1978)

Globes (1977)

Cultural and perceptual contrasts are evoked in this non-linear mythic episode in which a hammer, a paintbrush, a bucket, a pile of clothes, a window full of globes and a couple are manipulated via the filmmaker/demi-urge. ...

Scotty and Stuart (1977)

Constructed as a visual simile, Sherman's film utilizes a water faucet as the central image in a mysterious vignette that subverts conventions of causality and temporality. Alternating between interior and exterior locales and the stylized actions of a man ...

Hors Titre I (1981)

Hors Titre I (Off-Title I) is a hermetic movie deliberately mysterious. Figure interpreted by Stuart Sherman shines in the first part of the film by his anonymity. The man drowned in the crowd, activity, all this urban life that is foreign to him. It expre ...