Guy Sherwin Movies

This is a live projection event for two 16mm projectors and two loudspeakers. The material in Cycles (1972/77) is recycled for two screens and two...

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...

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

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...

Optical sound film by Guy Sherwin

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 a series of films that uses soundtracks generated directly from their own imagery. I shot the images of a staircase specifically for the range...

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

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...

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 while on a visit to Connemara in Ireland, the film is partly a response to the sense of time that the landscape evoked.

Bachs Prelude No. 24 in B-minor from Das wohltemporierte Klavier, performed by various pianists, is juxtaposed with pictures of a moving train.

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...