Guy Sherwin Movies

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

“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. ...

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 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...

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...

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,...

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

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

Part of Sherwin's short film series. "...In the shuddering stasis of METRONOME– an illusion caused by the clash between the spring-wound...

Half Light began as a study of light - when at a certain time of the year, and day, a shaft of sunlight would penetrate almost the length of the...

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