Nicky Hamlyn Movies

A video work by Nicky Hamlyn

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...

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...

Series of films produced during an artist’s residency at the Art Gallery of Windsor Ontario and Media City Festival. All the sequences were...

This is the last of three films about gasholders in England. Lattice columns and circular beams generate complex patterns of overlapping shadow...

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...

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...

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...

"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...

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...

An artificial animation of the repetitively cycling GM logo sequence and naturally occurring movements, such as clouds reflected in the tower’s...

Directed by Nicky Hamlyn.

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....

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

2008 Nicky Hamlyn short experimental work

Polytunnels was filmed in the Upper Tiber Valley, a tobacco growing area in central Italy. Tobacco is still produced there but the EU subsidies end...

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...

"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...

'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 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...