Nicky Hamlyn Filmes

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

A sequence of short films, each based on a dominant colour. Extensive use of time-lapse and frame by frame filming generates scintillating...

The film is composed of receding planes in a landscape: a back garden and the houses beyond. The wooden lattice fence, visible in the image, marks...

A video work by Nicky Hamlyn

"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...

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

Nicky Hamlyn’s celestial overtures The Transit of Venus I & II form a diptych document of this astronomical phenomenon, one shot in black in...

A video work by Nicky Hamlyn

2008 Nicky Hamlyn short experimental work

Misrecognitions and simulacra. An anti-montage film: a series of discrete shots that nevertheless gel at one or two points to produce simple...

A video work by Nicky Hamlyn

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

Ghost stories opens with a sequence of polemical shots: a mysterious shadow, an ambiguous advertisement which has deeper ambiguities unknown even to...

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...

'Within a personal framework I have juxtaposed adverts and pornography with some domestic events to try and elucidate and undercut the way sex and...