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
Piano 2013
Director
Window/Light 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
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Views from Home 2005
Director
Vowels & Consonants 2005
Director
Bruce Baillie at Total Mobile Home Talking About All My Life 2004
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Camden Road Station 2003
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Cycles #3 2003
Director
Newsprint #2 2003
Director
Da Capo: Variations on a Train with Anna 2000
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Filter Beds 1998
Director
Flight 1998
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Tree & Cloud 1998
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Gnats 1998
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Coots 1998
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Clouds & Wires 1998
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Cat 1998
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Tree Reflection 1998
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Animal Studies 1998
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Prelude 1996
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Under the Freeway 1995
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Mile End Purgatorio 1991
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Salt Water 1986
Director
Messages 1984
as Self, Director
Connemara 1980
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Wind & Water 1980
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Notes #1 1979
Director
Night Train 1979
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Notes 1979
Director
Light Leaves 1978
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Metronome 1978
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Cycle 1978
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Maya 1978
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Barn 1978
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Breathing 1978
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Clock & Train 1978
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Eye 1978
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Tap 1978
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Railings 1977
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Musical Stairs 1977
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Soundtrack 1977
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Candle & Clock 1977
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Blink 1977
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Columns 1977
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Swimming 1977
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Cat on TV 1977
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Chimney 1977
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Man with Mirror 1976
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Vermeer Frames 1976
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Track 1976
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Treeline 1976
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Window 1976
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Handcrank Clock 1976
Actor, Director
Hand/Shutter 1976
Actor, Director
Portrait with Parents 1975
Actor, Director
Spirals 1974
Director
Interval 1974
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At the Academy 1974
Director
Newsprint #1 1972
Director
Sound Shapes 1972
Director
Cycles #1 1972
Director
Phase Loop 1971
Director
New Shores 2012
Actor
Credits from TMDB.