Guy Sherwin Movies

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

Optical sound film by Guy Sherwin

The filmmaker's live interaction with his on-screen image which is projected onto a hand-held mirrored screen.The screen is white one side and...

Street-life at a busy intersection beneath a freeway in San Francisco. An urban landscape film with an underlying formal structure.

Optical sound film by Guy Sherwin

Optical sound film by Guy Sherwin

My youngest daughter, Mei, a few days after I helped deliver her (the midwife arrived too late).

Made using a super 8 sound camera. The microphone is attached to a stick protruding from the camera, and kept just out of sight. This...

Sherwin’s 1975 performance 'Paper Landscape' is a live interaction with his on-screen presence, filmed on super 8mm in Epping, London. Forty...

Optical sound film by Guy Sherwin

Film by Guy Sherwin

Optical sound film by Guy Sherwin

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

I had rooms at the front and back of the house and I recorded sunlight passing through them in the course of the day, as well as across the buildings...

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