Guy Sherwin

Known for: Directing
Movies: 91

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.

Best-Known Movies

5.3

Cat

1998

6.0

Metronome

1978

8.0

New Shores

2012

8.0

Messages

1984

4.0

Sound Cuts

2007

5.0

At the Academy

1974

6.0

Salt Water

1986

2.0

Piano

2013

6.0

Under the Freeway

1995

Hand/Shutter

1976

Filmography

2013	Guy & Kai
2012	New Shores
2009	Paper Landscape
1984	Messages	Self
1976	Hand/Shutter
1976	Handcrank Clock
1975	Portrait with Parents

Directing, Writing & Producing

2026	Animal Studies (Egret / Seagull Reflection / Midges / Spider / Swans in a Line)	Director
2026	Four Films about Music (Silent Jazz / Orchestra / Pause / Interior Music)	Director
2022	Split Wires	Director
2019	Why there is something rather than nothing	Director
2018	Half Light	Director
2017	Nijomasue	Director
2017	Paper Landscape #2	Director
2016	Light Cycles	Director
2015	Remjet	Director
2014	Short Film Series	Director
2013	Guy & Kai	Director
2013	Window/Light	Director
2013	Piano	Director
2011	Yi Wei	Director
2010	Mei	Director
2009	Paper Landscape	Director
2007	Cross Section #2	Director
2007	Optical Sound	Director
2007	Notes #2	Director
2007	Interval #2	Director
2007	Sound Cuts	Director
2007	Mobius Loops	Director
2007	Abrasion Loops	Director
2006	Bay Bridge from Embarcadero	Director
2006	After the Freeway	Director
2005	Views from Home	Director
2005	Vowels & Consonants	Director
2004	Bruce Baillie at Total Mobile Home Talking About All My Life	Director
2003	Newsprint #2	Director
2003	Cycles #3	Director
2003	Camden Road Station	Director
2000	Da Capo: Variations on a Train with Anna	Director
1998	Filter Beds	Director
1998	Flight	Director
1998	Animal Studies	Director
1998	Tree Reflection	Director
1998	Cat	Director
1998	Clouds & Wires	Director
1998	Coots	Director
1998	Gnats	Director
1998	Tree & Cloud	Director
1996	Prelude	Director
1995	Under the Freeway	Director
1991	Mile End Purgatorio	Director
1986	Salt Water	Director
1984	Messages	Director
1980	Wind & Water	Director
1980	Connemara	Director
1979	Notes #1	Director
1979	Notes	Director
1979	Night Train	Director
1978	Tap	Director
1978	Eye	Director
1978	Clock & Train	Director
1978	Breathing	Director
1978	Barn	Director
1978	Maya	Director
1978	Cycle	Director
1978	Metronome	Director
1978	Light Leaves	Director
1977	Railings	Director
1977	Musical Stairs	Director
1977	Soundtrack	Director
1977	Chimney	Director
1977	Cat on TV	Director
1977	Swimming	Director
1977	Columns	Director
1977	Blink	Director
1977	Candle & Clock	Director
1976	Man with Mirror	Director
1976	Hand/Shutter	Director
1976	Window	Director
1976	Handcrank Clock	Director
1976	Treeline	Director
1976	Track	Director
1976	Vermeer Frames	Director
1975	Portrait with Parents	Director
1974	Spirals	Director
1974	Interval	Director
1974	At the Academy	Director
1972	Newsprint #1	Director
1972	Sound Shapes	Director
1972	Cycles #1	Director
1971	Phase Loop	Director

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