Nicky Hamlyn

Passaporta (2021)

A chronological study of the view from a single window onto the skylight of Passaporta, a bookshop in Brussels. Shot over eighteen months and making extensive use of time-lapse filming. The work is underpinned by Siegfried Kracauer's assertion that we can ...

Kerfissien-Amlodipine (2020)

The work is constructed from shots of tidal seawater running over rippled sand and the blister pack for Amlodipine, a blood-pressure reducing drug. ...

Gasometers 4 (2016)

This is the last of three films about gasholders in England. Lattice columns and circular beams generate complex patterns of overlapping shadow movements and light shifts. These are made worse because gasholders often come in pairs, so there is additional ...

Gasometers 3 (2015)

This is the second (No. 1 no longer exists) of three films about gas tanks, or "gasometers", as they are called in England. They are located in a large industrial area of ​​North London. Before the discovery of natural gas in the North Sea in the 1960s ...

Honoré Nicolas (2015)

Honoré Nicolas is a study of a garden in Arles, Provence, shot over a one week period from the same camera position, and edited entirely in-camera. The curtain, which conceals a car-port, dances wildly to the Mistral wind. ...

Gasometers 2 (2015)

This is the first (No.1 no longer exists) of three films about Gas Holders, or 'Gasometers' as they are known in England. They were located in a large industrial area of North London. Before natural gas was discovered in the North Sea in the 1960s, it was ...

Gasometers (2015)

Series of films recording the dismantling of gas holders in North London, while Henderson's Grain Tower centres on a giant power station chimney that has recently been demolished. ...

Les Mots (2013)

Directed by Nicky Hamlyn. ...

Spinning Shadow (2013)

A video work by Nicky Hamlyn ...

Berlin Moiré (2013)

A video work by Nicky Hamlyn ...

La Défense (2013)

A video work by Nicky Hamlyn ...

Paréo (2013)

A video work by Nicky Hamlyn ...

Films (2013)

A video work by Nicky Hamlyn ...

Red Green (2012)

A study in contrast, colour and moiré pattern in a public park in Windsor, Ontario, Canada. The film connects with a series of paintings by visual artist, Angela Allen. ...

Michigan Central Station (2012)

A single time-lapse shot of the abandoned Michigan Central Station in Detroit. Recording subtle changes in light as it pierces the hollow skeleton of the building, the film was made at a rate of one frame every ten seconds. Part of a series of 7 films comp ...

AGW 2nd Floor South (2012)

Shot during a residency at Media City Film Festival and the Art Gallery of Windsor, "AGW 2nd Floor South" is part of a trilogy of works that use three distinct filmic procedures. Shot with a wide angle (10mm) lens at a rate of one frame every twenty second ...

Totem Pole – '67 (2012)

"Totem Pole '67" was shot frame by frame using extension tubes between the lens and camera body of a 16mm Bolex. The physical form of the subject comes directly to determine the outcome: it is both subject and camera support, that is, part of the technolog ...

Ernest Atkinson Park (2012)

A short shot made in a children's playground in Windsor, Ontario, is cut into three-frame sections, each of which is looped for ten seconds. Each loop advances by one one frame at a time. The process generates multiple and complex kinetic effects, which va ...

Seven Windsor Films (2012)

Series of films produced during an artist's residency at the Art Gallery of Windsor Ontario and Media City Festival. All the sequences were shot in and around the gallery on colour negative and Agfa B&W sound recording film.All the B&W sequences were hand ...

Renaissance Center / GM Tower (2012)

An artificial animation of the repetitively cycling GM logo sequence and naturally occurring movements, such as clouds reflected in the tower's windows. This grid of flat planes breaks the reflections up into rectangular fragments that resemble film in bot ...

East Croydon (2012)

A short shot made from a train traveling from south to north through East Croydon station is cut into three-frame sections, each of which is looped for ten seconds. Each loop advances by one one frame at a time. The looping process generates complex artifa ...

Place Vauban (2012)

A video work by Nicky Hamlyn ...

Tobacco Shed (2010)

Tobacco Shed is one of a series of films based on agricultural buildings, mostly concerned with tobacco production, in northwest Umbria. ...

Double Fence (2010)

Double Fence was shot from the balcony of a B&B in Porto Potenza Picena , on the Adriatic coast near Ancona . The work explores the changes that occur with slight shifts in framings of the same scene, and the dramatic alterations in light, colour , space a ...

Power Hub (2009)

Power Hub is a site-specific time lapse film shot over 24 hours in a disused bus factory in Maidstone, Kent, UK. The film was projected onto the window through which it was shot. ...

Zöetrope (2008)

2008 Nicky Hamlyn short experimental work ...

Autogrill Verghereto (2008)

2008 Nicky Hamlyn short experimental work ...

Pro Agri (2008)

Pro Agri is one in a series of films of buildings related to tobacco production in Umbria. It was shot over a two hour period from an hour before to an hour after sunset, at a rate of one frame every two seconds. ...

Sequences and Interruptions (2008)

A study in texture and rhythm, made with the painter Angela Allen. ...

Quartet (2007)

A sequence of twenty three shots of a room occurs four times, twice in colour, twice in black and white. The two colour sequences follow a strict filming plan, the second, black and white, pair are freer. ...

Four Toronto Films (2007)

Static shots with moving shadow of the tripod, including the shooting camera, are shifting through the film about direct association between an object and the machine which transforms it into an image - shadow drawings are completed one day by windows, clo ...

Object Studies (2005)

A sequence of short films, each based on a dominant colour. Extensive use of time-lapse and frame by frame filming generates scintillating juxtapositions of light phenomena. Filmed in north west Umbria. ...

The Transit of Venus (2005)

Nicky Hamlyn's celestial overtures The Transit of Venus I & II form a diptych document of this astronomical phenomenon, one shot in black in white in the United Kingdom, the other capturing a stunning Italian blush sunset. ...

Panni (2005)

Panni is a visually arresting work in its formal structure and visual expression of colors. The subject matter of the film is a row of bed sheets flapping on a clothesline, drying in the wind. The colors punch through the screen as orange sheets flutter ag ...

Penumbra (2003)

Penumbra consists of a series of continuous overlapping dissolves on a grid of white bathroom tiles, which are uniformly framed throughout the film. ...

Pistrino (2003)

The film is composed from thirty-second long time-lapse sequences, filmed in Northwest Umbria. Condensing days into seconds, Hamlyn makes use of lap dissolves and time-lapse photography to compress the temporal duration of the Italian landscape. ...

Water Water (2003)

WATER WATER revisits the bathroom location of a previous film WHITE LIGHT (1996). It is based around a set of antinomies that operate at various levels, from between frames to between the two halves of the film. The black and white first part is composed o ...

Lux et Umbra (1999)

1999 Nicky Hamlyn experimental short film ...

White Road (1999)

Set in a particular location, a stretch of 'white' – unmetalled – road in Umbria. Structured around ordered and disordered features of the landscape. ...

Not Resting (1999)

Not Resting was shot from a single position, the filmmaker's bed, in a single session. The film is structured around a number of formal ideas such as shot duration, movements between light and dark, static camera and static subject, and muted colors. ...

White Light (1996)

White Light consists of extreme close-up shots of chrome bath taps and their reflections, including the camera lens, which becomes its own subject, as it closes in on its reflection. This material is mixed with rotoscope animation, created on various surfa ...

Telly (1995)

A study of the TV as the bearer of images and as a scuptural-environmental object. The footage is extracted from an episode of the TV soap Brookside. ...

Hole (1992)

In Hole, the subject matter is a man made hole near a construction site. ...

Only at First (1991)

"Only at First" was shot over several months from the back of my house in Lewes, East Sussex. It records in part the development of a wetland site into a housing development, using a variety of filming strategies including animated permutations of sets of ...

Minutiae (1990)

Minutiae was made for the BBC 2 programme The Late Show, and was filmed in the same studio. The aim was to make an event-specific work that would contrast with the way the studio appeared on TV. ...

There Again (1988)

This film revisits the same location – a room in my house – as an earlier work, Ghost Stories (1983), and is in fact prefaced with a sequence from that film. "A house that has been experienced is not an inert box. Inhabited space transcends geometrical ...

That Has Been (1984)

That Has Been is the last in a series of longer works made in the first half of the 1980s. The film was shot in two adjacent rooms. Outside views are seen in reflection via an aluminum photographic lamp, while some of the imagery is generated from photogra ...

Ghost Stories (1983)

Ghost stories opens with a sequence of polemical shots: a mysterious shadow, an ambiguous advertisement which has deeper ambiguities unknown even to itself, and a lengthy quotation from Roland Barthes on the nature of autobiography. These opening shots out ...

Anagram (1981)

The film takes place entirely in one room and is based on a series of six repetitive shots. These shots establish a schema, a set of expectations which are then undermined. The film favours image rather than sound, in contrast to most narrative film, and t ...

Not to See Again (1980)

Misrecognitions and simulacra. An anti-montage film: a series of discrete shots that nevertheless gel at one or two points to produce simple meanings. Hovering on the line between abstraction and representation, the film hopes to problematize them both. Ac ...

Guesswork (1979)

Details, fragments, transformations and shadows of a confined space. ...

Inside Out (1976)

'Within a personal framework I have juxtaposed adverts and pornography with some domestic events to try and elucidate and undercut the way sex and the response to it occurs in cinema and advertising.' - N.H. ...

Silver Street (1975)

Silver Street was shot in a single day from my student house in Reading, Berkshire, where I studied Fine Art. Shots were made indoors and outdoors every hour. I adopted a shooting system using consistent framings, interspersed with variations. The film con ...

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Open Door: The Other Cinema (1977)

Avant-garde appeal on behalf of and made by the adventurous leftist London cinema, The Other Cinema, using the facilities provided by the BBC community programme unit. ...

Silver Street (1975)

Silver Street was shot in a single day from my student house in Reading, Berkshire, where I studied Fine Art. Shots were made indoors and outdoors every hour. I adopted a shooting system using consistent framings, interspersed with variations. The film con ...