LUX is pleased to announce the publication of a new DVD of film works by British artist filmmaker Guy Sherwin which will be launched at Café Oto on Tuesday 23rd February 2010
Guy Sherwin has been working with film since the early 1970s. His formative period was first as a painter, at Chelsea School of Art in the late ‘60s; then at the London Film-Makers Co-operative in the mid ‘70s where he developed his interest in the forms and structures of film. At the LFMC he helped run the workshop and gave instruction in the use of the 16mm printing and processing machines.
His work has employed a range of approaches, often concurrently: b/w silent films (Short Film Series 1975-1998, Animal Studies 1998-2003), live performances with film (Paper Landscape 1975, Man with Mirror 1976), hand-made optical soundtracks (Cycles #3 1972/2003, Railings 1977), gallery installations (Three Trees 2003, Clock Screen 2007) and lyrical, part-autobiographical films as included on this DVD. Recent work with his partner Lynn Loo involves multi-projection, using optical sounds mixed live during performance (Sound Cuts 2007, Mobius Loops 2007). Over the last few years he has exhibited his work and performed at numerous galleries and festivals in Europe, North America, Asia and Australasia.
Messages: Guy Sherwin contains a selection of Sherwin’s more personal, lyrical works including the title film, 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.
Full DVD contents: Messages (1981-4), Flight (1994/8) , Prelude (1980/96) Filter Beds (1990/98), Views from Home (1987/2005) also includes a small artists’ book and a specially commissioned essay on children and language by writer and critic Nicholas Tucker
DVD is available to buy now from the LUX Shop
