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Blink (1977)
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7.0
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Window/Light (2013)
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7.3
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Candle & Clock (1977)
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7.3
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Barn (1978)
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6.9
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Breathing (1978)
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6.9
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10
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Wind & Water (1980)
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7.0
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Tree & Cloud (1998)
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7.3
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Clock & Train (1978)
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6.6
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Clouds & Wires (1998)
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6.9
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Handcrank Clock (1976)
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6.9
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Track (1976)
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7.6
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Tree Reflection (1998)
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6.2
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Portrait with Parents (1975)
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Coots (1998)
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Mei (2010)
My youngest daughter, Mei, a few days after I helped deliver her (the midwife arrived too late).
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6.2
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Yi Wei (2011)
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6.8
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Night Train (1979)
The sound of lights passing through a darkened landscape seen from a moving train.
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6.6
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Treeline (1976)
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Gnats (1998)
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6.8
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Maya (1978)
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7.0
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Cat on TV (1977)
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6.0
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Window (1976)
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6.0
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Hand/Shutter (1976)
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7.3
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Cycle (1978)
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Eye (1978)
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Sound Shapes (1972)
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 by punching shapes into black film and scratching into the film's optical sound track. The film uses a bar structure similar to a music score. Each bar lasts one second (24 frames of film) and is divided into 2, 3, 4 or 6 aural and visual beats per second (bps). These are used in alternating patterns such as: 2/3, 3/4, 3/4/6, 2/3/6 In each section of the film an arbitrary relationship is established between image, sound and beats per second, for example: circle = 12 scratches per frame (high pitch sound) at 6 bps rhombus = 6 scratches per frame (mid pitch sound) at 4 bps triangle = 3 scratches per frame (low pitch sound) at 3 bps rectangle = 1 scratch per frame (percussive sound) at 6 bps A print of the film was hand-painted in 2006 G.S.
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5.6
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Swimming (1977)
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Filter Beds (1998)
short by Guy Sherwin
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Prelude (1996)
short by Guy Sherwin
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5.4
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Piano (2013)
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5.6
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Guy & Kai (2013)
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6.1
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Columns (1977)
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Messages (1984)
"Made during my daughter’s early childhood. It’s not about her, but it’s a response to her questions about the world that implicitly challenge things we take for granted – the visual appearance of the world, ambiguities in language, the ways we communicate." – Guy Sherwin
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Salt Water (1986)
Reflections in fish tanks in the windows of restaurants in Chinatown, San Francisco, accompanied by sounds of foghorns, passers-by, dining and breaking waves. Shot on Super 8, the images oscillate between abstraction, documentary portrait and poetry, with the fish coming in and out of focus, whilst the sound provides a grounding in the setting of San Francisco’s harbour and nearby Chinatown.
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26
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Phase Loop (1971)
Optical sound film by Guy Sherwin
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10
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Under the Freeway (1995)
Street-life at a busy intersection beneath a freeway in San Francisco. An urban landscape film with an underlying formal structure.
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Cat (1998)
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Sound Cuts (2007)
“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. At each cut we see an angled flash of light followed by a thud of sound. The film combines rhythmic intervals from one cut per second to twenty-four cuts per second, spread across 6 projectors”.
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40
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Newsprint #2 (2003)
A performance for two projectionists using two 16mm projectors with freeze-frame. This performance version further animates the newspaper text by using intermittent projection, pausing and re-starting the film on its way through the projector. The pauses allow us to read chance fragments of the newspaper. In performing the work two identical prints are shown superimposed with a slight difference in image size, which varies throughout the performance. The projectionists attempt to bring the two films into synchronisation with each other by alternately freezing and running the films. During these brief periods of synchronisation something unexpected happens as a result of the slight misregistration of the two identical images and of their accompanying sounds.
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Flight (1998)
short film by Guy Sherwin
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Cycles #1 (1972)
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 film and to its (optical) sound track. On projection these separate instants are converted simultaneously into picture and sound.The gaps between the dots gradually decrease until a fusion of the material occurs; the separate image-moments coalesce into a pulsating ball of light; simultaneously we hear rhythmic sounds fusing into a continuous rising drone.These transformations are taking place in our perceptual systems, for if we examine the physical strip of film, no such change is seen. Apparently we register time through our optical and our aural senses in very different ways, one chemical, the other mechanical.
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Metronome (1978)
Part of Sherwin's short film series. "...In the shuddering stasis of METRONOME– an illusion caused by the clash between the spring-wound mechanisms of the Bolex camera and of the metronome itself." -Film-Makers' Co-Op
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8.0
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Newsprint #1 (1972)
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 clear 16mm film then punched out the sprocket holes to enable the film to run through the projector. Using a strong light I printed ‘newspaper-film’ to copy it onto another strip of film. This shows up the letters and words clearly, which can also be heard as they pass over the sound-head in the projector. Newsprint #2 is a live projection event for two 16mm projectors and two loudspeakers [...] Two identical prints are shown superimposed onto the same screen." -GS.
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At the Academy (1974)
A found-footage film made entirely from Academy leader, which is normally used to cue the start of films. The film was hand-printed on a home-made contact printer. It was rolled back and re-printed several times over, to create a complex layering of both image and sound.
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Man with Mirror (1976)
A live film performance by Guy Sherwin.
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Views from Home (2005)
I had rooms at the front and back of the house and I recorded sunlight passing through them in the course of the day, as well as across the buildings seen from the windows. Sometimes I would set the time-lapse camera running and go off to work, leaving it to record the sunlight in the empty rooms. Another room in the flat was used for rehearsal by the saxophone player Alan Wilkinson. The soundtrack comes from recordings I made while walking from room to room as he was playing. This is mixed with a variety of music from the street, reflecting the multi-ethnicity of the location - Greek music, reggae, country & western. G.S. (LUXONLINE)
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Interval #2 (2007)
Optical sound film by Guy Sherwin
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Light Leaves (1978)
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