Guy Sherwin Movies

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

“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. ...

A hand-made film of a circular form that fluctuates in rhythms of light and sound.Cycles 1 is made by sticking paper dots onto the surface of the...

A performance work for multiple projectors in which the starting point is my sound & image experiments of the 70s. The film and sound material was...

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...

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

One of a series of films that uses soundtracks generated directly from their own imagery. I shot the images of a staircase specifically for the range...

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

Reflections in fish tanks in the windows of restaurants in Chinatown, San Francisco, accompanied by sounds of foghorns, passers-by, dining and...

short by Guy Sherwin

"Made during my daughter’s early childhood. It’s not about her, but it’s a response to her questions about the world that...

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,...