Nicky Hamlyn Movies
- 1983
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...
- 2005
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...
- 2003
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...
- 1999
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...
- 1992
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...
- 1999
White Road
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Set in a particular location, a stretch of ‘white’ – unmetalled – road in Umbria. Structured around ordered and disordered...
- 2003
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.
- 1980
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...
- 1979
Guesswork
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Details, fragments, transformations and shadows of a confined space.
- 2005
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...
- 1996
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,...
- 2005
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...
- 1999
Lux et Umbra
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1999 Nicky Hamlyn experimental short film
- 1995
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.
- 1975
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...
- 1990
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...
- 1984
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...