Nicky Hamlyn Movies

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...

2008 Nicky Hamlyn short experimental work

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...

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

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...

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...

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 video work by Nicky Hamlyn

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...

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

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....

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

2008 Nicky Hamlyn short experimental work

A video work by Nicky Hamlyn

A video work by Nicky Hamlyn

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...

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...

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

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

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