Film screenings + Conversations with the artist :
Session One 17 October 2025 Friday 6:30pm [Private View – by invitation] [FULL]
Session Two 18 October Saturday 4pm [FULL]
Session Three 18 October Saturday 6pm [Private View – by invitation] [3 places left]
Session Four 19 October Sunday 4pm
£8 for both Private View and Open Sessions | 8 places only per session | Please email divfuse@gmail.com for tickets
Running Time : 30 minutes approximately + 45 minutes conversations
Our curatorial line DIVFUSE Artist’s Journal presents Recent Sound Films by Guy Sherwin, where a selection of the artist’s latest short digital films will be shown. The screening will be followed by conversations between the artists and the audience.
DIVFUSE Artist’s Journal is a platform for artists, particularly those who work alone, to present their in-progress work with the aim to get some feedback and responses to help with further development.
‘Each of these films arrived at its form, and thereby any possible meaning, by a circuitous route, often starting with a single shot and then by attempting to understand those few seconds of film through the processes of digital video with its myriad possibilities.
Coming from an analogue film background it has taken me some time to find out how to work with digital. It’s such a different medium from film, and it’s not obvious how to go about using it, how to find ways that feel comfortable enough for me as well as appropriate to the medium.
Whereas the processes of 16mm film have certain restrictions that lead to particular characteristics or possibilities, digital has altogether different ones – leading to very different results.
As mentioned, my digital films usually start with a single shot. Something catches my eye and gets recorded on whatever camera is at hand. Very often it leads nowhere, but once in a while a certain idea will reveal itself. This method is not so far from my much earlier 16mm Short Film Series (begun 1975) or the more recent Animal Studies (begun 1998) but with Sound Films it is the sound as much as the image that determines the direction each film takes. Another factor in all this is that I am of an age when I no longer feel beholden to any group or institution – a welcome freedom that can also feel like working in a critical vacuum. Hence the opportunity to test out these films in the informal setting of Project DIVFUSE is most welcome.’ – Guy Sherwin
Films to be shown in each session will be selected from the following list:
Orchestra
Fibrillations
Walkway
Cabledance
Pause
Decomposition
Silent Jazz
Interior Music
Guy Sherwin started off as a painter then got involved in film through the London Film-Makers’ Co-op. He has been making films since the ’70s along with live performances and more recent gallery installations.
‘I have always been interested in the underlying forms and structures of film and its aesthetic possibilities, looking for new patterns and ways of organising film. At essence my work is driven by curiosity – what would happen if I try this? Overall I approach film as an analytic medium, capable of uncovering truths about the world and our perception of it.’
Since 2006, Guy Sherwin has been making projector performances with Lynn Loo, using multiple projectors. Occasionally, they work with improv musicians. His most recent single-channel work, such as Four Sound Films, explores the relation of sound to image, using digital video. Some of the exhibitions that the artist participated in include Film in Space, an exhibition of expanded cinema at Camden Arts Centre, London 2012/13; solo exhibition Light Cycles, Christine Park Gallery, London 2016. LUX London produces three DVDs of Sherwin’s work, namely Short Film Series 2014, Messages 2011, and Optical Sound Films 2007.
Images by Guy Sherwin
