Nicky Hamlyn Movies

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

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...

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...

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 from thirty-second long time-lapse sequences, filmed in Northwest Umbria. Condensing days into seconds, Hamlyn makes use of lap...

In Hole, the subject matter is a man made hole near a construction site. Employing static camera shots and conventional compositions, the film is an...

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

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...

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

A video work by Nicky Hamlyn

A video work by Nicky Hamlyn

Static shots with moving shadow of the tripod, including the shooting camera, are shifting through the film about direct association between an...

A video work by Nicky Hamlyn

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...

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....

White Light consists of extreme close-up shots of chrome bath taps and their reflections, including the camera lens, which becomes its own subject,...

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

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.