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
  • 1990
    Minutiae

    Minutiae

    Minutiae

    01990HD

    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
  • 1976
    Inside Out

    Inside Out

    Inside Out

    01976HD

    '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
  • 2015
    Gasometers

    Gasometers

    Gasometers

    02015HD

    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
  • 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
  • 1999
    Not Resting

    Not Resting

    Not Resting

    01999HD

    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
  • 2008
    Pro Agri

    Pro Agri

    Pro Agri

    02008HD

    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
  • 2021
    Passaporta

    Passaporta

    Passaporta

    02021HD

    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
  • 2007
    Quartet

    Quartet

    Quartet

    02007HD

    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...

    Quartet
  • 2013
    Les Mots

    Les Mots

    Les Mots

    02013HD

    Directed by Nicky Hamlyn.

    Les Mots
  • 1996
    White Light

    White Light

    White Light

    01996HD

    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
  • 1995
    Telly

    Telly

    Telly

    01995HD

    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
  • 2012
    Place Vauban

    Place Vauban

    Place Vauban

    02012HD

    A video work by Nicky Hamlyn

    Place Vauban
  • 2012
    East Croydon

    East Croydon

    East Croydon

    02012HD

    A short shot made from a train traveling from south to north through East Croydon station is cut into three-frame sections, each of which is looped...

    East Croydon
  • 2013
    Films

    Films

    Films

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    A video work by Nicky Hamlyn

    Films
  • 1970
    Polytunnels

    Polytunnels

    Polytunnels

    01970HD

    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
  • 1979
    Guesswork

    Guesswork

    Guesswork

    01979HD

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

    Guesswork
  • 2003
    Pistrino

    Pistrino

    Pistrino

    02003HD

    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
  • 2015
    Gasometers 2

    Gasometers 2

    Gasometers 2

    02015HD

    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...

    Gasometers 2
  • 1988
    There Again

    There Again

    There Again

    01988HD

    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