Stuart Sherman

Me and Joe

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

Don't Hang Up I'm Freezing

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

Black-Eyed Susan: Portrait of an Actress

A short film about the actress Black-Eyed Susan

Berlin-Tour

Short film directed by Stuart Sherman

Berlin-Tour

Short film directed by Stuart Sherman

Fish Story

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

Chess

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

Bridge Film

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

Rock/String

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

Scotty and Stuart

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.

Berlin/ West-Andere Richtungen

Scotty and Stuart

Theatre Piece

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.

Elevator/Dance

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.

Hand/Water

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.

Roller Coaster/Reading

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."

Baseball/TV

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."

Skating

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

Globes

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.