Optical Sound Film Talk
Guy Sherwin
Guy Sherwin gives a kind of annotated, chat through his optical sound films
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Guy Sherwin gives a kind of annotated, chat through his optical sound films
In Ramayya’s visionary poetry, the body assumes as many forms as love produces states: attraction and repulsion, excitement and exhaustion, selfishness and the dissolution of self.
Patented 60 cycle hums, static pops, and terse electron pinpricks mutated into perfect, post-techno grooves and synaesthesic video
Sparse and miniature free thought workouts involving guitar, vocals and tuba.
The struggle for sex workers’ rights and how we can understand it in the continuum of care work and other forms of invisibilised and precarious work.
Dub is strange. A conversation with Edward George and Dhanveer Brar.
Politicised fan-fiction chronicling working class gay urban space and fantasy.
Come for the crip ingenuity; stay for the smooth feels of what it is to be each other’s everything.
A community of those without community, for a community to come. A schizo-scenic video-collage of the disturbing ‘normality’ of Moby Dick.
Summing up of the investigations with a reflection on what has been done that week and what could be done the next.
The queer archiving of traumatic cultural memory from one of the leading voices working with queer archives.
Juliana’s performances chart the dissonant space and discrepancy between the presumed fixed norms of social life and the fluid lived experience those norms don’t allow for.