Nicky Hamlyn Movies

  • 1998
    Matrix

    Matrix

    Matrix

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    The film is composed of receding planes in a landscape: a back garden and the houses beyond. The wooden lattice fence, visible in the image, marks...

    Matrix
  • 2014
    Light Licks: Pardes: Drowned Hat Rescue Media City Motown Jump

    Light Licks: Pardes: Drowned Hat Rescue Media City Motown Jump

    Light Licks: Pardes: Drowned Hat Rescue Media City Motown Jump

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    Light Licks: Pardes: Drowned Hat Rescue Media City Motown Jump
  • 1976
    Inside Out

    Inside Out

    Inside Out

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    'Within a personal framework I have juxtaposed adverts and pornography with some domestic events to try and elucidate and undercut the way sex and...

    Inside Out
  • 2013
    Films

    Films

    Films

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    A video work by Nicky Hamlyn

    Films
  • 2021
    Passaporta

    Passaporta

    Passaporta

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    A chronological study of the view from a single window onto the skylight of Passaporta, a bookshop in Brussels. Shot over eighteen months and making...

    Passaporta
  • 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
  • 1977
    Open Door: The Other Cinema

    Open Door: The Other Cinema

    Open Door: The Other Cinema

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    Avant-garde appeal on behalf of and made by the adventurous leftist London cinema, The Other Cinema, using the facilities provided by the BBC...

    Open Door: The Other Cinema
  • 2015
    Gasometers

    Gasometers

    Gasometers

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    Series of films recording the dismantling of gas holders in North London, while Henderson's Grain Tower centres on a giant power station chimney that...

    Gasometers
  • 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
  • 2009
    Power Hub

    Power Hub

    Power Hub

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    Power Hub is a site-specific time lapse film shot over 24 hours in a disused bus factory in Maidstone, Kent, UK. The film was projected onto the...

    Power Hub
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 1988
    There Again

    There Again

    There Again

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    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...

    There Again
  • 2008
    Pro Agri

    Pro Agri

    Pro Agri

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    Pro Agri is one in a series of films of buildings related to tobacco production in Umbria. It was shot over a two hour period from an hour before to...

    Pro Agri
  • 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
  • 2008
    Sequences and Interruptions

    Sequences and Interruptions

    Sequences and Interruptions

    02008HD

    A study in texture and rhythm, made with the painter Angela Allen.

    Sequences and Interruptions
  • 2015
    Gasometers 3

    Gasometers 3

    Gasometers 3

    02015HD

    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
  • 2012
    Place Vauban

    Place Vauban

    Place Vauban

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    A video work by Nicky Hamlyn

    Place Vauban