Guy Sherwin
Biography
Born in 1948, Guy Sherwin studied painting at Chelsea School of Art in London. Inspired by films and expanded cinema from the London Filmmakers’ Co-op, he began making films and acquired laboratory skills while working there during the 1970s. His 16mm films are often highly concentrated in their form, but very diverse in terms of their imagery and approach. The Short Film Series (1975-ongoing) and live performance pieces such as Man with Mirror (1976-ongoing) involve human, animal and natural phenomena transcribed as filmic subjects, while his optical sound films and performances explore a wide variety of abstract audiovisual ideas.
Personal Details
Movies (50)
Why there is something rather than nothing
Director (Directing)
2019
Nijomasue
Director (Directing)
2017
Paper Landscape #2
Director (Directing)
2017
Light Cycles
Director (Directing)
2016
Short Film Series
Director (Directing)
2014
Guy & Kai
2013
Piano
Director (Directing)
2013
Window/Light
Director (Directing)
2013
New Shores
2012
Yi Wei
Director (Directing)
2011
Mei
Director (Directing)
2010
Paper Landscape
2009
Cross Section #2
Director (Directing)
2007
Optical Sound
Director (Directing)
2007
Notes #2
Director (Directing)
2007
Interval #2
Director (Directing)
2007
Sound Cuts
Director (Directing)
2007
Mobius Loops
Director (Directing)
2007
Bay Bridge from Embarcadero
Director (Directing)
2006
Views from Home
Director (Directing)
2005
Vowels & Consonants
Director (Directing)
2005
Bruce Baillie at Total Mobile Home Talking About All My Life
Director (Directing)
2004
Newsprint #2
Director (Directing)
2003
Cycles #3
Director (Directing)
2003
Da Capo: Variations on a Train with Anna
Director (Directing)
2000
Filter Beds
Director (Directing)
1998
Flight
Director (Directing)
1998
Animal Studies
Director (Directing)
1998
Gnats
Director (Directing)
1998
Cat
Director (Directing)
1998
Coots
Director (Directing)
1998
Tree Reflection
Director (Directing)
1998
Clouds & Wires
Director (Directing)
1998
Tree & Cloud
Director (Directing)
1998
Prelude
Director (Directing)
1996
Under the Freeway
Director (Directing)
1995
Mile End Purgatorio
Director (Directing)
1991
Salt Water
Director (Directing)
1986
Messages
as Self
1984
Wind & Water
Director (Directing)
1980
Connemara
Director (Directing)
1980
Notes #1
Director (Directing)
1979
Notes
Director (Directing)
1979
Night Train
Director (Directing)
1979
Eye
Director (Directing)
1978
Tap
Director (Directing)
1978
Cycle
Director (Directing)
1978
Maya
Director (Directing)
1978
Light Leaves
Director (Directing)
1978
Metronome
Director (Directing)
1978