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

PROGRAMME NOTES

SHORT FILM SERIES

This ongoing and incredibly diverse series examines themes of Landscape, Auto-Biography, Portraiture and act as exquisite, controlled studies of light as well as demonstrations of a wide range of filming techniques. The films are often hand printed which allows the artist to have full control over the contrast, textures and light levels in each film. An enduring concern with the subtle relationship between two fundamental elements of film, Time and Light underlies his work and Sherwin brings his subject matter into conjunction with a particular filming procedure and allows them to feed off each other with a beautiful playfulness and formal rigour.

‘100′ reels of epiphanies, time-lapse studies, ordinary objects and scenes rendered strange and ambiguous’. — Michael O’ Pray

‘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 world’. — A.L. Rees

MAN WITH MIRROR

The filmmaker’s live interaction with his on-screen image which is projected onto a hand-held mirrored screen.The screen is white one side and mirrored the other, and is used by the performer to either ‘catch’ the projected image, or reflect it around the cinema space. The image on film is of the same activity happening in a sunlit landscape. Visual echoes are set up between the live event and the recorded one. You can view a documentation of this performance at: www.luxvideo.org/media/clips/guy_sherwin/man_with_mirror.html

Guy Sherwin studied painting at Chelsea School of Art in the late 1960s. His subsequent film works often use serial forms and live elements, and engage with light and time as fundamental to cinema. Recent works include performances that use multiple projectors and optical sound, and installations made for an exhibition space.