Nicky Hamlyn Movies

  • 1983
    Ghost Stories

    Ghost Stories

    Ghost Stories

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

    Ghost Stories
  • 2005
    Panni

    Panni

    Panni

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    Panni is a visually arresting work in its formal structure and visual expression of colors. The subject matter of the film is a row of bed sheets...

    Panni
  • 2003
    Pistrino

    Pistrino

    Pistrino

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

    Pistrino
  • 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
  • 1992
    Hole

    Hole

    Hole

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    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...

    Hole
  • 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
  • 2003
    Penumbra

    Penumbra

    Penumbra

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

    Penumbra
  • 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
  • 1979
    Guesswork

    Guesswork

    Guesswork

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    Details, fragments, transformations and shadows of a confined space.

    Guesswork
  • 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
  • 1996
    White Light

    White Light

    White Light

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

    White Light
  • 2005
    The Transit of Venus

    The Transit of Venus

    The Transit of Venus

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

    The Transit of Venus
  • 1999
    Lux et Umbra

    Lux et Umbra

    Lux et Umbra

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    1999 Nicky Hamlyn experimental short film

    Lux et Umbra
  • 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
  • 1975
    Silver Street

    Silver Street

    Silver Street

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    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...

    Silver Street
  • 1990
    Minutiae

    Minutiae

    Minutiae

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    Minutiae was made for the BBC 2 programme The Late Show, and was filmed in the same studio. The aim was to make an event-specific work that would...

    Minutiae
  • 1984
    That Has Been

    That Has Been

    That Has Been

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    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...

    That Has Been