Nicky Hamlyn Filmes

A video work by Nicky Hamlyn

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...

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

2008 Nicky Hamlyn short experimental work

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...

Series of films produced during an artist’s residency at the Art Gallery of Windsor Ontario and Media City Festival. All the sequences were...

WATER WATER revisits the bathroom location of a previous film WHITE LIGHT (1996). It is based around a set of antinomies that operate at various...

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...

Set in a particular location, a stretch of ‘white’ – unmetalled – road in Umbria. Structured around ordered and disordered...

Honoré Nicolas is a study of a garden in Arles, Provence, shot over a one week period from the same camera position, and edited entirely...

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...

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

"Only at First" was shot over several months from the back of my house in Lewes, East Sussex. It records in part the development of a wetland site...

Misrecognitions and simulacra. An anti-montage film: a series of discrete shots that nevertheless gel at one or two points to produce simple...

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 Nicky Hamlyn experimental short film

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...