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Short Film Series (selection) - Guy Sherwin (United Kingdom, 1975-1988, 16mm, 9:00 min, mute)
It is
quite impossible to offer a definitive description of Guy Sherwin’s Short
Film Series, since it has no beginning, middle or end. Composed
of a series of three minute (100ft.) sections which can be projected in any
order, the series is open-ended and ongoing. The ideas of film as a record of
life and the camera apparatus as a ‘clock’ which actually marks ‘time’ are
present throughout the series. Many parts deal with two rates of time
measurement, as in Clock and Candle, or construct visual
paradoxes, as in the shuddering stasis of Metronome – an
illusion caused by the clash between the spring-wound mechanisms of the Bolex
camera and of the metronome itself. In Barn Door the
semi-strobe effect of light pulsations flattens the distant landscape.
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