Movies: Guy Sherwin

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

Optical sound film by Guy Sherwin...

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

Made during an artist residency in the rural Nijomasue district of Fukuoka, south Japan. The film features the public information system used to alert residents of earthquakes and other possible dangers...

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

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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 s...

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....

A performance for two projectionists using two 16mm projectors with freeze-frame. This performance version further animates the newspaper text by using intermittent projection, pausing and re-starting the film on its way through the projector. The p...

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...

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 partially submerged in developer, so that only half the film is developed, leaving the trace of a time spir...

Optical sound film by Guy Sherwin...

Optical sound by Guy Sherwin...