Guy Sherwin Movies

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

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. It could...

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

“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. ...

Made using a super 8 sound camera. The microphone is attached to a stick protruding from the camera, and kept just out of sight. This...

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,...

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...

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

Optical sound by Guy Sherwin

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...

Stationary shots of a station platform repeated across three screens. Trains and people waiting and departing, arriving and leaving.

Optical sound film by Guy Sherwin

In 1995 I was teaching in San Francisco while living in an apartment close to Freeway 101 where it enters the city. Struck by the variety of life...

A film made without a camera: A newspaper glued onto clear film is projected as audio-visual typography. "For NEWSPRINT I glued a newspaper onto...

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...