Stuart Sherman Movies

  • 1989
    Black-Eyed Susan: Portrait of an Actress

    Black-Eyed Susan: Portrait of an Actress

    Black-Eyed Susan: Portrait of an Actress

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    A short film about the actress Black-Eyed Susan

    Black-Eyed Susan: Portrait of an Actress
  • 1990
    John Cage: Man and Myth

    John Cage: Man and Myth

    John Cage: Man and Myth

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    An experimental documentary that looks at its subject John Cage through the eyes of contemporary Avante-Garde artists as well as those who play his...

    John Cage: Man and Myth
  • 1989
    Berlin-Tour

    Berlin-Tour

    Berlin-Tour

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    Short film directed by Stuart Sherman

    Berlin-Tour
  • 1980
    Rock/String

    Rock/String

    Rock/String

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    The filmmaker effects a variety of visual tricks that confound spatial relationships and defy gravity.

    Rock/String
  • 1982
    Typewriting (Pertaining to Stefan Brecht)

    Typewriting (Pertaining to Stefan Brecht)

    Typewriting (Pertaining to Stefan Brecht)

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    Typewriting (Pertaining to Stefan Brecht)
  • 1981
    Bridge Film

    Bridge Film

    Bridge Film

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    The filmmaker intersects the flow of traffic on narrow streets and on the canals of a European city.

    Bridge Film
  • 1983
    Fish Story

    Fish Story

    Fish Story

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    A naked man jumps off the deep end from a diving board into a surrealist watery world of fish and cellar stairs.

    Fish Story
  • 1978
    Edwin Denby

    Edwin Denby

    Edwin Denby

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    Edwin Denby
  • 1982
    Golf Film

    Golf Film

    Golf Film

    01982HD

    Golf Film
  • 1993
    Don't Hang Up I'm Freezing

    Don't Hang Up I'm Freezing

    Don't Hang Up I'm Freezing

    01993HD

    "Brrr! I'm so cold I could eat a phone book." — Stuart Sherman

    Don't Hang Up I'm Freezing
  • 1982
    Chess

    Chess

    Chess

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    Sherman underscores the oppositional component of the board game with split screen techniques and evocative black and white graphics.

    Chess
  • 1980
    Theatre Piece

    Theatre Piece

    Theatre Piece

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    Through "solipsistic, demiurgic actions," Sherman leaves his imprint on the theater world. He sits in a seat in the audience, occupies a chair...

    Theatre Piece
  • 1980
    Elevator/Dance

    Elevator/Dance

    Elevator/Dance

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    Sherman creates an elegant, graphically precise choreographed dance from the rhythmic, symmetrical movements of two elevators, two escalators and...

    Elevator/Dance
  • 1980
    Fountain/Car

    Fountain/Car

    Fountain/Car

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    Fountain/Car
  • 1979
    Flying

    Flying

    Flying

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    Flying
  • 1978
    Camera/Cage

    Camera/Cage

    Camera/Cage

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    Camera/Cage
  • 1977
    Scotty and Stuart

    Scotty and Stuart

    Scotty and Stuart

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    Constructed as a visual simile, Sherman's film utilizes a water faucet as the central image in a mysterious vignette that subverts conventions of...

    Scotty and Stuart
  • 1970
    Berlin/ West-Andere Richtungen

    Berlin/ West-Andere Richtungen

    Berlin/ West-Andere Richtungen

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    Scotty and Stuart

    Berlin/ West-Andere Richtungen
  • 1994
    Me and Joe

    Me and Joe

    Me and Joe

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    "Just the two of us, on tape forever. (But my VCR's so out of shape!)" — Stuart Sherman

    Me and Joe
  • 1986
    The Discovery of the Phonograph

    The Discovery of the Phonograph

    The Discovery of the Phonograph

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    The Discovery of the Phonograph