Nicky Hamlyn Movies

"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...

A video work by Nicky Hamlyn

2008 Nicky Hamlyn short experimental work

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...

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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

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

A single time-lapse shot of the abandoned Michigan Central Station in Detroit. Recording subtle changes in light as it pierces the hollow skeleton of...

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

The work is constructed from shots of tidal seawater running over rippled sand and the blister pack for Amlodipine, a blood-pressure reducing drug.

"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...

Static shots with moving shadow of the tripod, including the shooting camera, are shifting through the film about direct association between an...

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

A short shot made in a children’s playground in Windsor, Ontario, is cut into three-frame sections, each of which is looped for ten seconds....