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