Guy Sherwin Movie Trailers
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Cycles #3 Trailer (2003)
01 January 2003
This is a live projection event for two 16mm projectors and two loudspeakers. The material in Cycles (1972/77) is recycled for two screens and two soundtracks, with one screen set inside another, giving rise to a surprising induced colours and rhythmic patterns.
Under the Freeway Trailer (1995)
01 January 1995
Street-life at a busy intersection beneath a freeway in San Francisco. An urban landscape film with an underlying formal structure.
Animal Studies Trailer (1998)
01 January 1998
An ongoing set of films of inconsequential animal movements which are hand-printed in a variety of ways, using changes of light, geometry, time.
Mile End Purgatorio Trailer (1991)
10 June 1991
Mile End Purgatorio is Guy Sherwin and Martin Doyle’s one minute hymn to the London road via its shop signs.
Da Capo: Variations on a Train with Anna Trailer (2000)
01 January 2000
Bachs Prelude No. 24 in B-minor from Das wohltemporierte Klavier, performed by various pianists, is juxtaposed with pictures of a moving train.
Salt Water Trailer (1986)
01 January 1986
Reflections in fish tanks in the windows of restaurants in Chinatown, San Francisco, accompanied by sounds of foghorns, passers-by, dining and breaking waves.
Newsprint #2 Trailer (2003)
01 January 2003
A performance for two projectionists using two 16mm projectors with freeze-frame. This performance version further animates the newspaper text by using intermittent projection, pausing and re-starting the film on its way through the projector.
Light Cycles Trailer (2016)
13 February 2016
Documentation film of the exhibition 'Light Cycles' by Guy Sherwin which took place at the Christine Park Gallery between the 13th and 27th February 2016.
Paper Landscape #2 Trailer (2017)
01 January 2017
Sherwin’s 1975 performance 'Paper Landscape' is a live interaction with his on-screen presence, filmed on super 8mm in Epping, London.
Mobius Loops Trailer (2007)
01 January 2007
A performance work for multiple projectors in which the starting point is my sound & image experiments of the 70s.
Cycles #1 Trailer (1972)
01 January 1972
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 film and to its (optical) sound track.
Vermeer Frames Trailer (1976)
01 January 1976
Silent short film by Guy Sherwin as part of his Short Film series in which he captures everyday life, diary like subjects.
Short Film Series Trailer (2014)
02 July 2014
Guy Sherwin's SHORT FILM SERIES was made between 1976 and 2014. Eventually he issued 34 films. Some are single studies of light, focused on the reflections in an eye shot in close-up.
Nijomasue Trailer (2017)
01 January 2017
Made during an artist residency in the rural Nijomasue district of Fukuoka, south Japan. The film fes
Sound Cuts Trailer (2007)
01 January 2007
“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.
Paper Landscape Trailer (2009)
23 April 2009
An expanded film performance by Guy Sherwin using a transparent screen and white paint
Bay Bridge from Embarcadero Trailer (2006)
01 January 2006
9 mins b/w Silent 16 mm for 3x16 mm projectors, or 2x16mm projectors, overlapping; can be shown as a performance or installation.
At the Academy Trailer (1974)
01 January 1974
A found-footage film made entirely from Academy leader, which is normally used to cue the start of films.
Connemara Trailer (1980)
01 January 1980
Made while on a visit to Connemara in Ireland, the film is partly a response to the sense of time that the landscape evoked.
Why there is something rather than nothing Trailer (2019)
16 March 2019
There is something exhilarating about observing an artistic star that shines at the edge of the cosmos, and steadfastly refuses to move to the centre, that even seems to vanish beyond the periphery as time and fashion move on, only for it to become visible again”.
Vowels & Consonants Trailer (2005)
01 January 2005
A film collaboration using six projectors that evolved from Lynn Loo's film o and Guy Sherwin's printer installation bdpq.
Metronome Trailer (1978)
01 January 1978
Part of Sherwin's short film series. "...In the shuddering stasis of METRONOME– an illusion caused by the clash between the spring-wound mechanisms of the Bolex camera and of the metronome itself.
Newsprint #1 Trailer (1972)
19 September 1972
A film made without a camera: A newspaper glued onto clear film is projected as audio-visual typography.
Soundtrack Trailer (1977)
05 March 1977
Railway tracks seen from a speeding train are converted into optical sounds.
Messages Trailer (1984)
29 September 1984
"Made during my daughter’s early childhood. It’s not about her, but it’s a response to her questions about the world that implicitly challenge things we take for granted – the visual appearance of the world, ambiguities in language, the ways we communicate.
Sound Shapes Trailer (1972)
08 August 1972
One of my first 16mm films, made without a camera as an experiment in how to visualize rhythm. It equates four simple shapes with four simple sounds, made by punching shapes into black film and scratching into the film's optical sound track.
Spirals Trailer (1974)
12 December 1974
A film made without a camera in which both image and sound are the result of the same chemical process.
Musical Stairs Trailer (1977)
14 June 1977
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 of sounds they would produce.
New Shores Trailer (2012)
06 October 2012
NEW SHORES is a sister film to IN THE STONE HOUSE in many ways. Like the latter film, it consists of earlier footage edited in recent years.
Notes Trailer (1979)
01 January 1979
Made using a super 8 sound camera. The microphone is attached to a stick protruding from the camera, and kept just out of sight.