Nicky Hamlyn Movies

Set in a particular location, a stretch of ‘white’ – unmetalled – road in Umbria. Structured around ordered and disordered...

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...

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

Directed by Nicky Hamlyn.

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...

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....

"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...

A video work by Nicky Hamlyn

A video work by Nicky Hamlyn

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...

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...

2008 Nicky Hamlyn short experimental work

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

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

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

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...

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...

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