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 wide variety of abstract audiovisual ideas.
Vowels & Consonants
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Sound Cuts
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Newsprint #2
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Notes
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Cycles #3
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Mobius Loops
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Man with Mirror
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Mile End Purgatorio
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At the Academy
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Short Film Series
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Light Cycles
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Prelude
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Flight
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Views from Home
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Filter Beds
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Messages
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Animal Studies
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Bay Bridge from Embarcadero
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Salt Water
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Night Train
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Guy & Kai
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Window/Light
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Mei
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Chimney
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Wind & Water
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Tap
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Portrait with Parents
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Tree Reflection
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Eye
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Clock & Train
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Breathing
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Hand/Shutter
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Cat
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Cat on TV
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Barn
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Maya
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Cycle
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Metronome
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Window
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Yi Wei
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Swimming
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Handcrank Clock
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Light Leaves
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Clouds & Wires
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Coots
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Treeline
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Gnats
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Tree & Cloud
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Piano
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Columns
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Track
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Blink
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Candle & Clock
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Cycles #1
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Vermeer Frames
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Paper Landscape
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Da Capo: Variations on a Train with Anna
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Connemara
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Musical Stairs
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Notes #2
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Spirals
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Newsprint #1
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Railings
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Interval #2
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Soundtrack
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Notes #1
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Sound Shapes
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Optical Sound
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Phase Loop
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Interval
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Cross Section #2
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Nijomasue
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Why there is something rather than nothing
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Paper Landscape #2
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Under the Freeway
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