Guy Sherwin Movies

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...

"One of a series of films that investigates qualities of sound that can be generated directly from the image track. The images that you see are...

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

One of my first 16mm films, made without a camera as an experiment in how to visualize rhythm. It equates four simple shapes with four simple sounds,...

Optical sound film by Guy Sherwin

A found-footage film made entirely from Academy leader, which is normally used to cue the start of films. The film was hand-printed on a home-made...

short by Guy Sherwin

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,...

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

There is something exhilarating about observing an artistic star that shines at the edge of the cosmos, and steadfastly refuses to move to the...

NEW SHORES is a sister film to IN THE STONE HOUSE in many ways. Like the latter film, it consists of earlier footage edited in recent years. It could...

Optical sound film by Guy Sherwin

A film made without a camera: A newspaper glued onto clear film is projected as audio-visual typography. "For NEWSPRINT I glued a newspaper onto...

Bachs Prelude No. 24 in B-minor from Das wohltemporierte Klavier, performed by various pianists, is juxtaposed with pictures of a moving train.

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