Guy Sherwin
Directing
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.
Known for
Cat
January 1, 1998
Metronome
January 1, 1978
Sound Cuts
January 1, 2007
At the Academy
January 1, 1974
Messages
September 29, 1984
Salt Water
January 1, 1986
Piano
January 1, 2013
Under the Freeway
January 1, 1995
Newsprint #2
January 1, 2003
Vowels & Consonants
January 1, 2005
Notes
January 1, 1979
Cycles #3
January 1, 2003
Behind the camera84
- 2026Animal Studies (Egret / Seagull Reflection / Midges / Spider / Swans in a Line) Director
- 2026Four Films about Music (Silent Jazz / Orchestra / Pause / Interior Music) Director
- 2022Split Wires Director
- 2019Why there is something rather than nothing Director
- 2018Half Light Director
- 2017Nijomasue Director
- 2017Paper Landscape #2 Director
- 2016Light Cycles Director
- 2015Remjet Director
- 2014