Guy Sherwin Movies
- 2026

Animal Studies (Egret / Seagull Reflection / Midges / Spider / Swans in a Line)
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Animal Studies relates to and overlaps the Short Film Series, which I began in 1975. The beauty of working in a series is its flexibility; films can...
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- 1980

Connemara
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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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- 1976

Hand/Shutter
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- 2006

Bay Bridge from Embarcadero
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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...
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- 2013

Piano
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- 2009

Paper Landscape
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An expanded film performance by Guy Sherwin using a transparent screen and white paint
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- 2007

Abrasion Loops
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Colour film leader was sandblasted to produce image and optical soundtrack giving the appearance of drifting grain against shifting white noise. The...
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- 1979

Night Train
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The sound of lights passing through a darkened landscape seen from a moving train.
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- 1978

Metronome
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Part of Sherwin's short film series. "...In the shuddering stasis of METRONOME– an illusion caused by the clash between the spring-wound...
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- 2004

Bruce Baillie at Total Mobile Home Talking About All My Life
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With: Rebecca Barten, David Sherman, Guy Shewin, Barbara Meter, Ross Lipman, Brian Frye, and others Camera: Most of the above and Bruce Baillie ...
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- 1978

Clock & Train
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- 2003

Cycles #3
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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...
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- 2015

Remjet
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Looking through my outdated film stock for a hand-made project to use in my teaching, I started experimenting with raw colour film. Colour stock is...
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- 2007

Sound Cuts
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“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. ...
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- 1991

Mile End Purgatorio
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Mile End Purgatorio is Guy Sherwin and Martin Doyle’s one minute hymn to the London road via its shop signs. A heady rapid-fire brew of Dante,...
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- 2013

Window/Light
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- 1971

Phase Loop
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Optical sound film by Guy Sherwin
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- 1975

Portrait with Parents
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- 2003

Newsprint #2
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A performance for two projectionists using two 16mm projectors with freeze-frame. This performance version further animates the newspaper text by...
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- 2006

After the Freeway
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In 1995 I was teaching in San Francisco while living in an apartment close to Freeway 101 where it enters the city. Struck by the variety of life...
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