Guy Sherwin
Known For: Directing
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 wide variety of abstract audiovisual ideas.
Filmography
2026
2022
- Split Wires ... (Director)
2019
- Why there is something rather than nothing ... (Director)
2018
- Half Light ... (Director)
2017
- Nijomasue ... (Director)
- Paper Landscape #2 ... (Director)
2016
- Light Cycles ... (Director)
2015
- Remjet ... (Director)
2014
- Short Film Series ... (Director)
2013
- Guy & Kai
- Piano ... (Director)
- Window/Light ... (Director)
2012
2011
- Yi Wei ... (Director)
2010
- Mei ... (Director)
2009
2007
- Abrasion Loops ... (Director)
- Interval #2 ... (Director)
- Sound Cuts ... (Director)
- Cross Section #2 ... (Director)
- Mobius Loops ... (Director)
- Notes #2 ... (Director)
- Optical Sound ... (Director)
2006
- After the Freeway ... (Director)
- Bay Bridge from Embarcadero ... (Director)
2005
- Vowels & Consonants ... (Director)
- Views from Home ... (Director)
2004
- Bruce Baillie at Total Mobile Home Talking About All My Life ... (Director)
2003
- Camden Road Station ... (Director)
- Newsprint #2 ... (Director)
- Cycles #3 ... (Director)
2000
- Da Capo: Variations on a Train with Anna ... (Director)
1998
- Tree Reflection ... (Director)
- Coots ... (Director)
- Flight ... (Director)
- Filter Beds ... (Director)
- Clouds & Wires ... (Director)
- Gnats ... (Director)
- Tree & Cloud ... (Director)
- Cat ... (Director)
- Animal Studies ... (Director)
1996
- Prelude ... (Director)
1995
- Under the Freeway ... (Director)
1991
- Mile End Purgatorio ... (Director)
1986
- Salt Water ... (Director)
1984
- Messages as Self
1980
- Wind & Water ... (Director)
- Connemara ... (Director)
1979
- Night Train ... (Director)
- Notes #1 ... (Director)
- Notes ... (Director)
1978
- Maya ... (Director)
- Barn ... (Director)
- Tap ... (Director)
- Breathing ... (Director)
- Cycle ... (Director)
- Clock & Train ... (Director)
- Eye ... (Director)
- Metronome ... (Director)
- Light Leaves ... (Director)
1977
- Chimney ... (Director)
- Columns ... (Director)
- Blink ... (Director)
- Railings ... (Director)
- Candle & Clock ... (Director)
- Cat on TV ... (Director)
- Swimming ... (Director)
- Musical Stairs ... (Director)
- Soundtrack ... (Director)
1976
- Hand/Shutter
- Man with Mirror ... (Director)
- Window ... (Director)
- Handcrank Clock
- Vermeer Frames ... (Director)
- Track ... (Director)
- Treeline ... (Director)
1974
- Spirals ... (Director)
- At the Academy ... (Director)
- Interval ... (Director)
1972
- Cycles #1 ... (Director)
- Sound Shapes ... (Director)
- Newsprint #1 ... (Director)
1971
- Phase Loop ... (Director)