Guy Sherwin Movies

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

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...

Film by Guy Sherwin

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

Sherwin’s 1975 performance 'Paper Landscape' is a live interaction with his on-screen presence, filmed on super 8mm in Epping, London. Forty...

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 during an artist residency in the rural Nijomasue district of Fukuoka, south Japan. The film features the public information system used to...

Optical sound film by Guy Sherwin

Made while on a visit to Connemara in Ireland, the film is partly a response to the sense of time that the landscape evoked.

A film made without a camera in which both image and sound are the result of the same chemical process. Raw film was spooled onto a spiral and...

9 mins b/w Silent 16 mm for 3x16 mm projectors, or 2x16mm projectors, overlapping; can be shown as a performance or installation. Similar views of...

A performance for two projectionists using two 16mm projectors with freeze-frame. This performance version further animates the newspaper text by...

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...

Street-life at a busy intersection beneath a freeway in San Francisco. An urban landscape film with an underlying formal structure.