Guy Sherwin Movies

  • 2026
    Animal Studies (Egret / Seagull Reflection / Midges / Spider / Swans in a Line)

    Animal Studies (Egret / Seagull Reflection / Midges / Spider / Swans in a Line)

    Animal Studies (Egret / Seagull Reflection / Midges / Spider / Swans in a Line)

    02026HD

    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...

    Animal Studies (Egret / Seagull Reflection / Midges / Spider / Swans in a Line)
  • 1980
    Connemara

    Connemara

    Connemara

    01980HD

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

    Connemara
  • 1976
    Hand/Shutter

    Hand/Shutter

    Hand/Shutter

    01976HD

    Hand/Shutter
  • 2006
    Bay Bridge from Embarcadero

    Bay Bridge from Embarcadero

    Bay Bridge from Embarcadero

    02006HD

    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...

    Bay Bridge from Embarcadero
  • 2013
    Piano

    Piano

    Piano

    22013HD

    Piano
  • 2009
    Paper Landscape

    Paper Landscape

    Paper Landscape

    82009HD

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

    Paper Landscape
  • 2007
    Abrasion Loops

    Abrasion Loops

    Abrasion Loops

    02007HD

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

    Abrasion Loops
  • 1979
    Night Train

    Night Train

    Night Train

    01979HD

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

    Night Train
  • 1978
    Metronome

    Metronome

    Metronome

    61978HD

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

    Metronome
  • 2004
    Bruce Baillie at Total Mobile Home Talking About All My Life

    Bruce Baillie at Total Mobile Home Talking About All My Life

    Bruce Baillie at Total Mobile Home Talking About All My Life

    02004HD

    With: Rebecca Barten, David Sherman, Guy Shewin, Barbara Meter, Ross Lipman, Brian Frye, and others Camera: Most of the above and Bruce Baillie ...

    Bruce Baillie at Total Mobile Home Talking About All My Life
  • 1978
    Clock & Train

    Clock & Train

    Clock & Train

    01978HD

    Clock & Train
  • 2003
    Cycles #3

    Cycles #3

    Cycles #3

    02003HD

    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...

    Cycles #3
  • 2015
    Remjet

    Remjet

    Remjet

    02015HD

    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...

    Remjet
  • 2007
    Sound Cuts

    Sound Cuts

    Sound Cuts

    42007HD

    “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. ...

    Sound Cuts
  • 1991
    Mile End Purgatorio

    Mile End Purgatorio

    Mile End Purgatorio

    61991HD

    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,...

    Mile End Purgatorio
  • 2013
    Window/Light

    Window/Light

    Window/Light

    02013HD

    Window/Light
  • 1971
    Phase Loop

    Phase Loop

    Phase Loop

    01971HD

    Optical sound film by Guy Sherwin

    Phase Loop
  • 1975
    Portrait with Parents

    Portrait with Parents

    Portrait with Parents

    01975HD

    Portrait with Parents
  • 2003
    Newsprint #2

    Newsprint #2

    Newsprint #2

    02003HD

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

    Newsprint #2
  • 2006
    After the Freeway

    After the Freeway

    After the Freeway

    02006HD

    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...

    After the Freeway