Guy Sherwin
- Known for
- Directing
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.
Filmography
Four Films about Music (Silent Jazz / Orchestra / Pause / Interior Music) 2026
Director
Animal Studies (Egret / Seagull Reflection / Midges / Spider / Swans in a Line) 2026
Director
Split Wires 2022
Director
Why there is something rather than nothing 2019
Director
Half Light 2018
Director
Paper Landscape #2 2017
Director
Nijomasue 2017
Director
Light Cycles 2016
Director
Remjet 2015
Director
Short Film Series 2014
Director
Window/Light 2013
Director
Piano 2013
Director
Guy & Kai 2013
Actor, Director
Yi Wei 2011
Director
Mei 2010
Director
Paper Landscape 2009
Actor, Director
Cross Section #2 2007
Director
Optical Sound 2007
Director
Notes #2 2007
Director
Interval #2 2007
Director
Abrasion Loops 2007
Director
Mobius Loops 2007
Director
Sound Cuts 2007
Director
After the Freeway 2006
Director
Bay Bridge from Embarcadero 2006
Director
Views from Home 2005
Director
Vowels & Consonants 2005
Director
Bruce Baillie at Total Mobile Home Talking About All My Life 2004
Director
Camden Road Station 2003
Director
Cycles #3 2003
Director
Credits from TMDB.