PRICE REDUCTION ON FINAL COPY: One copy of this item arrived from Lux with slight
bending on some of the corners of the outer slip case packaging, so the price is reduced.
NOTE: This DVD is "PAL / Region Free" which means that if you live outside of the UK, it can
either be played on a region-free DVD player or the DVD drive on a computer. In other words,
regular NTSC DVD players will not be able to play it. Before ordering this DVD, please make
sure you are able to play PAL / Region Free DVDs.
Messages collects the personal and lyrical films of Guy Sherwin, one of the pre-eminent
British film artists of the past forty years. The DVD features one of Sherwin’s major film works
‘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.
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 my 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.
Full DVD contents:
- Messages (1981/1984)
- Flight (1994/1998)
- Prelude (1980/1996)
- Filter Beds (1990/98)
- Views From Home (1987/2005)
Plus 60 page artists’ book and a specially commissioned essay by writer and critic Nicholas
Tucker.
bending on some of the corners of the outer slip case packaging, so the price is reduced.
NOTE: This DVD is "PAL / Region Free" which means that if you live outside of the UK, it can
either be played on a region-free DVD player or the DVD drive on a computer. In other words,
regular NTSC DVD players will not be able to play it. Before ordering this DVD, please make
sure you are able to play PAL / Region Free DVDs.
Messages collects the personal and lyrical films of Guy Sherwin, one of the pre-eminent
British film artists of the past forty years. The DVD features one of Sherwin’s major film works
‘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.
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 my 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.
Full DVD contents:
- Messages (1981/1984)
- Flight (1994/1998)
- Prelude (1980/1996)
- Filter Beds (1990/98)
- Views From Home (1987/2005)
Plus 60 page artists’ book and a specially commissioned essay by writer and critic Nicholas
Tucker.
artist: GUY SHERWIN
title: Messages
label: Lux
country: UK
format: PAL / Region-Free DVD + 60 page book
title: Messages
label: Lux
country: UK
format: PAL / Region-Free DVD + 60 page book
