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Personal Info

Gender

Male

Place of Birth

Guy Sherwin

Biography:

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

Acting

2013

2012

2009

1984

Messages as Self

1976

1975

Directing

2017

Nijomasue as Director
Paper Landscape #2 as Director

2016

Light Cycles as Director

2014

Short Film Series as Director

2013

Piano as Director
Guy & Kai as Director
Window/Light as Director

2011

Yi Wei as Director

2010

Mei as Director

2009

Paper Landscape as Director

2007

Sound Cuts as Director
Mobius Loops as Director
Interval #2 as Director
Notes #2 as Director
Optical Sound as Director
Cross Section #2 as Director

2005

Views from Home as Director

2003

Newsprint #2 as Director
Cycles #3 as Director

1998

Flight as Director
Filter Beds as Director
Animal Studies as Director
Gnats as Director
Cat as Director
Coots as Director
Tree Reflection as Director
Clouds & Wires as Director
Tree & Cloud as Director

1996

Prelude as Director

1995

Under the Freeway as Director

1991

1986

Salt Water as Director

1984

Messages as Director

1980

Wind & Water as Director
Connemara as Director

1979

Notes as Director
Night Train as Director
Notes #1 as Director

1978

Eye as Director
Tap as Director
Cycle as Director
Maya as Director
Light Leaves as Director
Metronome as Director
Clock & Train as Director
Breathing as Director
Barn as Director

1977

Chimney as Director
Cat on TV as Director
Swimming as Director
Columns as Director
Candle & Clock as Director
Blink as Director
Soundtrack as Director
Musical Stairs as Director
Railings as Director

1976

Man with Mirror as Director
Hand/Shutter as Director
Window as Director
Treeline as Director
Track as Director
Handcrank Clock as Director
Vermeer Frames as Director

1975

1974

At the Academy as Director
Interval as Director
Spirals as Director

1972

Cycles #1 as Director
Sound Shapes as Director
Newsprint #1 as Director

1971

Phase Loop as Director