Composer & Sound Designer

Sharnelle
Guthrie

Original music and sound for games, film, and imagined worlds.

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01 · 2026 · Runtime 7:14

I Stayed Long Enough to See It

An original composition and music film exploring the space between the ordinary and the impossible. What begins familiar slowly opens into something stranger, moving through water, memory, tenderness, and the surreal before finding its way back again.

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01

2026

7:14

I Stayed Long Enough to See It

Music Film · 16:9

An original composition and music film exploring the space between the ordinary and the impossible. What begins familiar slowly opens into something stranger, moving through water, memory, tenderness, and the surreal before finding its way back again.

Original Composition · Creative Direction · Sound Design · Editing · Visual Development · Mixed Media

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02

2026

7:15

The Beckoning She Couldn't Ignore

Short Film · 16:9

A surreal dream film for House Remembrance, a piece about the way memory folds, drifts, and returns.

Original Composition · Creative Direction · Editing · Writing · AI-Assisted Production

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03

2026

1:50

The Secret Eyes

Concept Piece · 16:9

A conceptual piece on looking: the detective, the watched, and the eye that holds the frame.

Original Composition · Creative Direction · Visual Development · Editing · Environmental Sound Design

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04

2026

1:18

The Palm Rest Motel | Episodes 1-3

Vertical Short · 9:16

A liminal motel narrative, a place that exists between destinations, and between states of being.

Original Composition · Creative Direction · Writing · Production · Editing · Sound Design

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05

2026

3:37

Even if You Hide, You Will Be Calibrated

Short Film · 16:9

A selected vlog and short film from the Seeking Zoe series, the search rendered as a quiet, observational form.

Original Composition · Creative Direction · Worldbuilding · Mixed Media · Editing · Sound Design · Voice Performance · Visual Development

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06

2023

23:19

The Way We Used to Be (1995)

Short Film · 16:9

A film on memory and time: contemporary road-trip footage, 1990s archival-style imagery, Los Angeles, and temporal reversal.

Original Composition · Creative Direction · Editing · Writing · Mixed Media · Sound Design

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07

2026

1:23

Autumn Came Early This Year

Short Film · 16:9

Four friends arrive at an idyllic autumn cabin while something in the tree line begins transmitting the season before it arrives. A Subchannel 9 transmission where the horror emerges through recognition rather than interruption.

Original Composition · Creative Direction · Writing · Production · Editing · Original Score · Sound Design · Mixed Media

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08

2026

Lola Jane Knight Mare Hunter

Indie Game · 16:9

Musical Composition · Sound Design

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