Guy Sherwin and Lynn Loo – Sunday Screening – 11 October

Join on Sunday 11 October at 6pm for an experimental film screening by Guy Sherwin and Lynn Loo, including Messages (Guy Sherwin 1984), Conversations (Lynn Loo 2026), and the very special Irish premier of Connemara (Guy Sherwin 1980). Originally shot on 16mm in the 1980s by Sherwin while traveling within the Irish landscape and reflecting on structure, presence, and place, the film remained unseen for over three decades and was lovingly restored by EYE Institute Amsterdam.

“Time is experienced through the film in a number of ways: traces of past human activity, static shots of long duration, the same places revisited in different conditions of weather and light, exact print repeats of some of the shots, exact repeats of ambient sounds (set against different images), an overall symmetrical shape to the film. I was also interested to discover what kind of aural and visual spaces the mind would create from the juxtaposition of conflicting stimuli.” – Guy Sherwin

Messages, 35 mins, b&w, silent 16mm, 1984,  Guy Sherwin

Conversations 2, 15mins, colour sound DV, 2026,  Lynn Loo

Connemara, 30 mins, colour sound 16mm, 1980,  Guy Sherwin

This event is free but booking is essential. Book here.

Lynn Loo is originally from Singapore and currently living in London. She taught music before making her first film in 1997. The influence of a poetic approach to experimental film began in Chicago at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. On moving to London she learned a different, more tactile, film culture taking place in Europe. Her work looks into the possibility of sculpting time and space through the language of moving-image and the diversity of technology. It includes single-screen films, multiple-projection performances, and installations in super 8, 16mm, and video.

Guy Sherwin studied painting at Chelsea School of Art before joining the London Film-Makers’ Cooperative in the early 1970s, where he learned the processes of film. The rigours of a material based approach opened up all aspects of film making and exhibition as potential for exploration. The various threads of his practice originated there: silent one-roll camera films; sounds made from camera images or by hand; playing with the material of the screen and the space of performance. His collaboration with Lynn Loo has extended this approach into multi-projection and digital forms.