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Guy Sherwin - 11 films from 'Short Film Series'

By kerry baldry on Mon, 21/10/2013 - 11:30

Projection Rooms is pleased to be screening a programme of 11 films from 'Short Film Series' by Guy Sherwin between the hours of 12 and 4.30pm on Saturday 30th November and Sunday 1st. The work is part of an ongoing film project by Guy Sherwin which began in 1975. '

The series is held together by certain formal considerations: each film is three minutes long, i.e. the length of a roll of 16mm film, all films are b/w and silent, and the order in which they are shown is flexible. Apart from this there is a range of imagery from portraiture to still life to travel. The films operate on the border between movement and stillness, revealing their inner logic through an active engagement in looking. For the exhibition I have made two DVDs from the 16mm originals, one with 5 films and the other with 6 films. Thus the connections between the films are always changing. A DVD of 34 films from Short Film Series is in production with LUX, to be released late 2013'. - Guy Sherwin

Dates:
Saturday, November 30, 2013 - 12:00 to 16:30
Sunday, December 1, 2013 - 12:00 to 16:30
Venue:
Projection Rooms - Hull, United Kingdom
Independent Film Show 13th Edition

By Marcos Ortega on Tue, 18/06/2013 - 02:32
Independent Film Show 13th edition, an international show dedicated to experimental cinema, anticipates the annual event on Thursday 27, Friday 28 and Saturday 29 June, planning the three programs and the two expanded cinema performances on the Museo Nitsch’s terrace.

The Independent Film Show focuses on the multiple processes that film/video-makers create to give structure to the intense relationships that exist between the devices used for projection and the interpretative participation of the audience. Past editions have often highlighted the special capabilities of experimental cinema, which does not impose a standardised view, but requires the spectator to watch with conscious application, in order to appreciate the intricate formal representations, the complex social codes, and extensive cognitive aspirations that extend beyond the screen. The immersive possibility of establishing direct contact with independent cinematic philosophies and highlighting the alternatives and innovations that subvert the logic of the standard production is the key to the approach required to access these complex visual patterns. The interference of the lights of the milieu, the position of the projectors, the reflective quality of the screen, the line of vision and its position within the field of vision contribute to the creation of the film, and it is at the moment that the viewer becomes aware of the solidity of the photons, which impress upon his gaze and envelop the body, that the cognitive process able to form complex mental structures is activated.
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Guy Sherwin - Messages
Messages collects the personal and lyrical films of Guy Sherwin, one of the pre-eminent British film artists of the past forty years. The DVD features one of Sherwin’s major film works ‘Messages’ (1981-4) a meditation on childhood and language inspired by the work of Swiss psychologist Jean Piaget and Sherwin’s experience of his own daughter’s development.

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Average: 3 (2 votes)
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DVD
Publisher:
LUX
Guy Sherwin - Optical Sound Films (1971/2007)
Optical Sound Films collects the ongoing work and research of Guy Sherwin, one of the pre-eminent British film artists of the last 40 years in a unique artist’s book and DVD publication.

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Average: 4 (5 votes)
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DVD
Publisher:
LUX
(s8) 2nd Mostra de Cine Periférico

By Marcos Ortega on Mon, 23/05/2011 - 05:21

The 2nd edition of (s8) Mostra de Cine Periférico (June 2-5, A Coruña, Spain) continues its exploration of 'peripheral cinema' and small gauges. Among the many highlights of this year's edition are the screening of the recently discovered 'complete' version of Fritz Lang's Metropolis, that will open the festival; screenings and performances by Guy Sherwin and Zoe Beloff; several curated programmes of contemporary super8 films; and installations by Left Hand Rotation and Vari Caramés.

In collaboration with CGAI and La Casa Encendida (Madrid), the festival will present the programme 'Heaven on Earth', with monographic screenings of Nathaniel Dorsky, Zoe Beloff, Phil Solomon and Robert Beavers. The full programme will be announced soon.
Guy Sherwin: Messages

By Marcos Ortega on Thu, 28/01/2010 - 07:11
LUX has just released a second DVD of Guy Sherwin's films. While the previous volume Optical sound films (1971/2007) collected Sherwin's works dealing with his research on the 'synaesthesic relationship between sound and image manifest in the material of film sound', Messages deals with his more personal and lyrical films.

The publication will be celebrated in a launch event at Cafe Oto on Tuesday 23rd February 2010. Several of Guy Sherwin's films will be screened accompanied by a live soundtrack by John Edwards, Steve Noble and Alan Wilkinson.

The films included in this compilation are Messages (1981-4), Flight (1994-8), Prelude (1980-96), Filter Beds (1990-98) and Views from Home (1987-2005). Includes a small artists’ book and a specially commissioned essay on children and language by writer and critic Nicholas Tucker. DVD, PAL, 70 minutes, Region free, 20 GBP.
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LUX Presents - Messages

By Marcos Ortega on Thu, 28/01/2010 - 07:07
LUX Presents - Messages: Guy Sherwin / Alan Wilkinson / John Edwards / Steve Noble
Tuesday 23rd February 2010, 8pm
Café Oto, Ashwin St, Dalston, E8 3DL, UK
Tickets: £5

A night of film and music to celebrate the publication of a new LUX book/DVD Guy Sherwin: Messages.

3 films/3 musicians:
- Filter Beds, 16mm film / John Edwards, bass
- Flight, 16mm film / Steve Noble, drums
- Views from Home Reviewed, digital video/ Alan Wilkinson, saxophone

followed by a session of Edwards/Noble/Wilkinson.
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Events
Modos de habitar

By Marcos Ortega on Sun, 24/01/2010 - 13:30

Paisajes domésticos: interiores y exteriores de casas donde cohabitan las variaciones de la luz con los objetos, los niños y la cámara en un determinado tiempo. Lugares donde la cámara opera como un instrumento, con sus diferentes posibilidades fílmicas compone mosaicos del espacio doméstico: diferentes modos de ver el espacio íntimo y de habitarlo.

Ventana, Claudio Caldini. Argentina, 1975, vídeo, 4 min.
Dates:
Sunday, January 24, 2010 - 18:30
Close-up: Histories of the Avant-Garde Part III

By Marcos Ortega on Wed, 06/01/2010 - 17:08
Close-up: Histories of the Avant-Garde Part III
January 26th 2009, 20h
The Working Men’s Club, 44-46 Pollard Row, E2 6NB, London. Ticket: £5/£3 Close-Up members
Doors open at 7.45 pm
Presented by Close-Up and The Dog Movement

PASSAGE THROUGH: A RITUAL by Stan Brakhage + MUSICAL STAIRS by Guy Sherwin

A chance to see one of Brakhage’s most important sound films for the first time in London alongside Guy Sherwin’s Optical Sound film Musical Stairs.

Parts 1 and 2 of Histories of the Avant-Garde looked at the resolutely, intensely silent Brakhage film Riddle of Lumen and Guy Sherwin’s Short Film Series. Part 3 enters the world of sound with these two filmmkakers and also looks forward to Part 4 in February, which will be examining music’s manifold relationship to Film with five American masters.

Brakhage’s relationship to sound was complex. It took an almost indirect collaboration with the composer Phillip Corner to fulfill Brakhage’s desire for a way of giving equal importance to music and image whilst keeping them parallel, distinct experiences. Long passages of black with Corner’s music are cut with silent flashes of colour photography culled from Brakhage’s ‘rejected’ footage. Meditative and demanding but ultimately one of Brakhage’s most rewarding films.
Sherwin’s Musical Stairs has a method of production and structure that could be seen in opposition to Passage. Image is physically printed on to the optical sound track to create an seemingly absolute synthesis of sound and image.
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Close-up: Histories of the Avant-Garde Part II

By Marcos Ortega on Wed, 04/11/2009 - 03:38
Histories of the Avant-Garde Part II - Guy Sherwin in Person - Short Film Series + Man With Mirror

Close-Up and The Dog Movement present a rare chance to see a large group of Guy Sherwin’s interconnected 3 minute films as well as the wonderfully subtle Expanded Cinema performance of Man With Mirror followed by a Q&A with the artist.

Tuesday 24 November 8pm
Guy Sherwin In Person - Short Film Series

Parts from the Short Film Series will include: Eye, Bicycle, Metronome, Portrait with Parents, Window, Barn, Cat, Chimney, Maya, and Tree Reflection. All 3 mins B&W 16mm silent

Followed by Man with Mirror (10 mins colour S-8mm)

Venue: The Working Men’s Club, 44-46 Pollard Row, E2 6NB. Ticket: £7/£5 Close-Up members
Doors open at 7.45 pm
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