Nicky Hamlyn Movies

  • 2015
    Honoré Nicolas

    Honoré Nicolas

    Honoré Nicolas

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    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...

    Honoré Nicolas
  • 1999
    White Road

    White Road

    White Road

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

    White Road
  • 2005
    Object Studies

    Object Studies

    Object Studies

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

    Object Studies
  • 2015
    Gasometers 3

    Gasometers 3

    Gasometers 3

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    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...

    Gasometers 3
  • 2007
    Four Toronto Films

    Four Toronto Films

    Four Toronto Films

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

    Four Toronto Films
  • 1995
    Telly

    Telly

    Telly

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    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.

    Telly
  • 1970
    Polytunnels

    Polytunnels

    Polytunnels

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    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...

    Polytunnels
  • 2016
    Gasometers 4

    Gasometers 4

    Gasometers 4

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

    Gasometers 4
  • 1991
    Only at First

    Only at First

    Only at First

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    "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...

    Only at First
  • 2013
    Paréo

    Paréo

    Paréo

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    A video work by Nicky Hamlyn

    Paréo
  • 2010
    Double Fence

    Double Fence

    Double Fence

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    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...

    Double Fence
  • 1981
    Anagram

    Anagram

    Anagram

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    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...

    Anagram
  • 2012
    Red Green

    Red Green

    Red Green

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    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...

    Red Green
  • 2012
    Ernest Atkinson Park

    Ernest Atkinson Park

    Ernest Atkinson Park

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    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....

    Ernest Atkinson Park
  • 1999
    Not Resting

    Not Resting

    Not Resting

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    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...

    Not Resting
  • 1980
    Not to See Again

    Not to See Again

    Not to See Again

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

    Not to See Again
  • 1999
    Lux et Umbra

    Lux et Umbra

    Lux et Umbra

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    1999 Nicky Hamlyn experimental short film

    Lux et Umbra