Guy Sherwin Movies

Optical sound film by Guy Sherwin

short by Guy Sherwin

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

A film collaboration using six projectors that evolved from Lynn Loo's film o and Guy Sherwin's printer installation bdpq. The images were produced...

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

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

Optical sound film by Guy Sherwin

An expanded film performance by Guy Sherwin using a transparent screen and white paint

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

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 by Guy Sherwin

"One of a series of films that investigates qualities of sound that can be generated directly from the image track. The images that you see are...

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 during my daughter’s early childhood. It’s not about her, but it’s a response to her questions about the world that...