Guy Sherwin
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Biography
Born in 1948, Guy Sherwin studied painting at Chelsea School of Art in London. Inspired by films and expanded cinema from the London Filmmakers’ Co-op, he began making films and acquired laboratory skills while working there during the 1970s. His 16mm films are often highly concentrated in their form, but very diverse in terms of their imagery and approach. The Short Film Series (1975-ongoing) and live performance pieces such as Man with Mirror (1976-ongoing) involve human, animal and natural phenomena transcribed as filmic subjects, while his optical sound films and performances explore a wid…
Animal Studies (Egret / Seagull Reflection / Midges / Spider / Swans in a Line)
2026 · Director
Four Films about Music (Silent Jazz / Orchestra / Pause / Interior Music)
2026 · Director
Split Wires
2022 · Director
Why there is something rather than nothing
2019 · Director
Half Light
2018 · Director
Nijomasue
2017 · Director
Paper Landscape #2
2017 · Director
Light Cycles
2016 · Director
Remjet
2015 · Director
Short Film Series
2014 · Director
Guy & Kai
2013
Guy & Kai
2013 · Director
Window/Light
2013 · Director
Piano
2013 · Director
New Shores
2012
Yi Wei
2011 · Director
Mei
2010 · Director
Paper Landscape
2009
Paper Landscape
2009 · Director
Cross Section #2
2007 · Director
Optical Sound
2007 · Director
Notes #2
2007 · Director
Interval #2
2007 · Director
Sound Cuts
2007 · Director
Mobius Loops
2007 · Director
Abrasion Loops
2007 · Director
Bay Bridge from Embarcadero
2006 · Director
After the Freeway
2006 · Director
Views from Home
2005 · Director
Vowels & Consonants
2005 · Director
Bruce Baillie at Total Mobile Home Talking About All My Life
2004 · Director
Newsprint #2
2003 · Director
Cycles #3
2003 · Director
Camden Road Station
2003 · Director
Da Capo: Variations on a Train with Anna
2000 · Director
Filter Beds
1998 · Director
Flight
1998 · Director
Animal Studies
1998 · Director
Tree Reflection
1998 · Director
Cat
1998 · Director
Clouds & Wires
1998 · Director
Coots
1998 · Director
Gnats
1998 · Director
Tree & Cloud
1998 · Director
Prelude
1996 · Director
Under the Freeway
1995 · Director
Mile End Purgatorio
1991 · Director
Salt Water
1986 · Director
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