Re: Sherwin in Paris

From: Mark R Hancock (email suppressed)
Date: Mon Jun 12 2006 - 05:44:27 PDT


I agree! I first saw Guy's work at the Mead Gallery at Warwick Uni a few (3?) years ago. Played an important part in shapoing my Masters thesis and was more than happy to answer my dumb questions in email, later on.

Would be worth the train fare from the Midlands (UK) to Paris to see them.

Mark R Hancock
MemeCortex.net

 -------Original Message-------
 From: deke dusinberre <email suppressed>
 Subject: Sherwin in Paris
 Sent: 12 Jun '06 06:38
 
 For any Frameworkers in Paris (not Texas) who haven’t already seen my
 post on Nyctalope, a piece of advice: skip the France vs. Switzerland
 soccer game on Tuesday night and catch Guy Sherwin’s double screening
 at Scratch. It should be an “historic” evening in every sense of the
 term. His work is far too little known—he was a pivotal figure at the
 London Film-Coop in the 1970s, an active contributor to the British
 school of expanded cinema (cf. the recent discussion of Annabel
 Nicolson’s “Reel Time”), and has been quietly making films ever since.
 The almost child-like gaze he brings to moving pictures (and sounds)
 slowly yields subtle, zen-like revelations.
 I don’t know how he will re-enact (or update) such key early works as
 “Paper Landscape” (1975) and “Man with Mirror” (1976), but it will
 certainly be worth a trip to Les Voûtes to find out.
 
 [Disclosure statement: Guy is an old friend from my London days, so
 this plug may lack a certain objectivity--but I’ll still stake my
 critical reputation on his work.]
 
 Deke Dusinberre
 PS: College grads welcome.
 
 Practical details:
 Scratch Projection, Tuesday June 13th.  8pm ‘til late
 Les Voûtes
 19 rue des Frigos
 75013 Paris
 
 email suppressed
 Tel: (33-1) 42.54.38.05 / Fax (33-1) 42.54.37.63
 
 
 __________________________________________________________________
 For info on FrameWorks, contact Pip Chodorov at <email suppressed>.
 
 For any Frameworkers in Paris (not Texas) who haven’t already seen my
 post on Nyctalope, a piece of advice: skip the France vs. Switzerland
 soccer game on Tuesday night and catch Guy Sherwin’s double screening
 at Scratch. It should be an “historic” evening in every sense of the
 term. His work is far too little known—he was a pivotal figure at the
 London Film-Coop in the 1970s, an active contributor to the British
 school of expanded cinema (cf. the recent discussion of Annabel
 Nicolson’s “Reel Time”), and has been quietly making films ever since.
 The almost child-like gaze he brings to moving pictures (and sounds)
 slowly yields subtle, zen-like revelations.
 
 I don’t know how he will re-enact (or update) such key early works as
 “Paper Landscape” (1975) and “Man with Mirror” (1976), but it will
 certainly be worth a trip to Les Voûtes to find out.
 
 
 [Disclosure statement: Guy is an old friend from my London days, so
 this plug may lack a certain objectivity--but I’ll still stake my
 critical reputation on his work.]
 
 
 Deke Dusinberre
 
 PS: College grads welcome.
 
 
 Practical details:
 
 Scratch Projection, Tuesday June 13th.  8pm ‘til late
 
 Les Voûtes
 
 19 rue des Frigos
 
 75013 Paris
 
 
 email suppressed
 
 Tel: (33-1) 42.54.38.05 / Fax (33-1) 42.54.37.63
 
 

__________________________________________________________________
For info on FrameWorks, contact Pip Chodorov at <email suppressed>.