Guy Sherwin - Optical Sound Films (1971-2007) flac album

Guy Sherwin studied painting at Chelsea School of Art in the 1960s before becoming closely associated with the British avant garde film movement centred on The London Film-makers Co-operative in the 1970s. His film works, often including serial forms and live performance, are characterized by an enduring concern with time and light as the fundamentals of cinema

Guy Sherwin studied painting at Chelsea School of Art in the 1960s before becoming closely associated with the British avant garde film movement centred on The London Film-makers Co-operative in the 1970s. His film works, often including serial forms and live performance, are characterized by an enduring concern with time and light as the fundamentals of cinema. Optical Sound Films explores in detail one of his particular and recurrent concerns, the synaesthesic relationship between sound and image manifest in the material of film sound.

Optical sound is a means of storing sound recordings on transparent film. Originally developed for military purposes, the technology first saw widespread use in the 1920s as a sound-on-film format for motion pictures. Optical sound eventually superseded all other sound film technologies until the advent of digital sound became the standard in cinema projection booths.

Guy Sherwin studied painting at Chelsea School of Art in the 1960s before becoming closely associated with the British avant garde film movement centred on The London Film-makers Co-operative in the 1970s.

Optical Sound Films 1971-2007 (LUX) contains a good run (maybe his entire ouevre) of the classic 1970s films, plus later reworkings of same films into ‘more complex projections’. There’s also an excellent well-illustrated book included in the set where Mr Sherwin provides clear and simple notes on how each film came to be, and a handy explanation of how optical sound actually works in film projectors. I knew Pete Woodin at art college, and I think he had been ‘mentored’ by Guy Sherwin in some small way. He was certainly in favour of Sherwin’s pared-down, basic approach to cinema. The early films you will see here are compacted, ingenious examples of projected abstract art, for the most part using only black and white shapes – or rather perhaps we should say making the most of projected light and celluloid.

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Film changes our awareness of time. Biographical details: 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, time and sound as fundamental to cinema. Listen to an interview with Guy Sherwin on ABC National Radio, Australia Read an interview on MyArtSpace Visit our vodcasts page to download an interview with Guy Sherwin. Full Film/Videography. Film & Video Clips.

1. 0. Optical Sound. 2007 Directed by Guy Sherwin.

The Optical Sound Films, made between 1977 and 2007, explored the ‘physical correspondence between sound and image’, often working directly with 16mm film, where sound and image are both carried in visual form on the same strip, rather than being shot with a camera. In fact one of the Short Films, entitled Night Train (1977) became an optical sound film two years later, when the horizontal lights shot on a London to Birmingham train were doubled up onto the soundtrack.