Nicky Hamlyn Movies

A video work by Nicky Hamlyn

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

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...

2008 Nicky Hamlyn short experimental work

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...

Directed by Nicky Hamlyn.

"Totem Pole '67" was shot frame by frame using extension tubes between the lens and camera body of a 16mm Bolex. The physical form of the subject...

A video work by Nicky Hamlyn

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...

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

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...

Shot during a residency at Media City Film Festival and the Art Gallery of Windsor, "AGW 2nd Floor South" is part of a trilogy of works that use...

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...

A video work by Nicky Hamlyn

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...

An artificial animation of the repetitively cycling GM logo sequence and naturally occurring movements, such as clouds reflected in the tower’s...

A video work by Nicky Hamlyn

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...

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.

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