Stuart Sherman

Short film directed by Stuart Sherman

An experimental documentary that looks at its subject John Cage through the eyes of contemporary Avante-Garde artists as well as those who play his music.

The filmmaker intersects the flow of traffic on narrow streets and on the canals of a European city.

A naked man jumps off the deep end from a diving board into a surrealist watery world of fish and cellar stairs.

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Cultural and perceptual contrasts are evoked in this non-linear mythic episode in which a hammer, a paintbrush, a bucket, a pile of clothes, a window full of globes and a couple are manipulated via the filmmaker/demi-urge.

Short film directed by Stuart Sherman

Short film directed by Stuart Sherman

An experimental documentary that looks at its subject John Cage through the eyes of contemporary Avante-Garde artists as well as those who play his music.

The filmmaker intersects the flow of traffic on narrow streets and on the canals of a European city.

A naked man jumps off the deep end from a diving board into a surrealist watery world of fish and cellar stairs.

No synopsis available yet.

Cultural and perceptual contrasts are evoked in this non-linear mythic episode in which a hammer, a paintbrush, a bucket, a pile of clothes, a window full of globes and a couple are manipulated via the filmmaker/demi-urge.

Through "solipsistic, demiurgic actions," Sherman leaves his imprint on the theater world. He sits in a seat in the audience, occupies a chair onstage and stands at the door of the theater. Becoming transparent, he leaves his trace everywhere.

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Juxtaposition and editing are used in this meditation on the human/environmental act of skating and its component parts.

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The filmmaker's waving hand, its wooden facsimile, a steamship, a rowboat, the ocean and a bowl of water are the main elements in this visual pun that is also a study of scale.

The filmmaker effects a variety of visual tricks that confound spatial relationships and defy gravity.

Sherman underscores the oppositional component of the board game with split screen techniques and evocative black and white graphics.

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Sherman creates an elegant, graphically precise choreographed dance from the rhythmic, symmetrical movements of two elevators, two escalators and their two riders (a man and a woman) tethered to the aural image of an imposing jukebox.

Using the accoutrements of baseball, Sherman analyzes the magic of tv/film representation and offers a pun on the word "catch." "The camera catches the image, just as a baseball player catches the ball."

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"Just the two of us, on tape forever. (But my VCR's so out of shape!)" — Stuart Sherman

"Brrr! I'm so cold I could eat a phone book." — Stuart Sherman

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Constructed as a visual simile, Sherman's film utilizes a water faucet as the central image in a mysterious vignette that subverts conventions of causality and temporality. Alternating between interior and exterior locales and the stylized actions of a man (the filmmaker) and a woman, the film "is rhythmic in an almost musical way, developing images of water from glass to tub to ocean, through clusters of oppositions such as water/fire, man/woman, turning on/turning off, inside/outside." At the end, the protagonists achieve unity and stasis as they sit together on bentwood chairs facing the ocean.

A short film about the actress Black-Eyed Susan

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Scotty and Stuart

Meshing the visceral and the intellectual, "Sherman proposes, through editing and parallel camera movement, that the act of reading is exhilarating, like riding a roller coaster."