Catalogue des films de « Guy Sherwin »

"The projector illuminates a transparent polythene screen. Behind the screen stands the performer/film- maker who applies white paint to the polythene. As a result the film image is revealed; it shows the same performer slowly tearing up a paper...

"My most recent film, made on digital video and recorded in rural southern Japan while on residency. The film centres on the neighbourhood information system used to communicate with the local residents." (G.S.)

Sunlight through trees flickers across the keyboard while Lynn is playing.

A portrait of myself with my son Kai, age 5.

Three sources of light: an open window, a light-bulb, and direct fogging of the film – caused by light entering the side of camera while the film was running.

Yi Wei is Lynn’s Chinese given name.

My younger daughter Mei a few days after her sudden delivery by hand.

"Sherwin’s hallmark is the direct concentrated image which fully exploits the tonal range of black and white stock. This control is not at all rigid, since its purpose is to capture in the shot a certain kind of freedom and chance in the visible...

I’m not sure if these are gnats or midges in this film. They were swarming under trees as I filmed them against the sky. That piece of film was placed in an optical printer and re-filmed in increasing close-up until the gnats (or midges) appear...

Time-accelerated film of a cat sleeping in the sun on the corrugated plastic roof of our garden shed.