Nicky Hamlyn Movies

  • 1981
    Anagram

    Anagram

    Anagram

    01981HD

    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...

    Anagram
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 2010
    Double Fence

    Double Fence

    Double Fence

    02010HD

    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...

    Double Fence
  • 2010
    Tobacco Shed

    Tobacco Shed

    Tobacco Shed

    02010HD

    Tobacco Shed is one of a series of films based on agricultural buildings, mostly concerned with tobacco production, in northwest Umbria.

    Tobacco Shed
  • 1983
    Ghost Stories

    Ghost Stories

    Ghost Stories

    01983HD

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

    Ghost Stories
  • 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
  • 1992
    Hole

    Hole

    Hole

    01992HD

    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...

    Hole
  • 1999
    Lux et Umbra

    Lux et Umbra

    Lux et Umbra

    01999HD

    1999 Nicky Hamlyn experimental short film

    Lux et Umbra
  • 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
  • 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
  • 2005
    Object Studies

    Object Studies

    Object Studies

    02005HD

    A sequence of short films, each based on a dominant colour. Extensive use of time-lapse and frame by frame filming generates scintillating...

    Object Studies
  • 1975
    Silver Street

    Silver Street

    Silver Street

    01975HD

    Silver Street was shot in a single day from my student house in Reading, Berkshire, where I studied Fine Art. Shots were made indoors and outdoors...

    Silver Street
  • 2012
    Seven Windsor Films

    Seven Windsor Films

    Seven Windsor Films

    02012HD

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

    Seven Windsor Films
  • 1999
    White Road

    White Road

    White Road

    01999HD

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

    White Road
  • 2016
    Gasometers 4

    Gasometers 4

    Gasometers 4

    02016HD

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

    Gasometers 4
  • 2005
    The Transit of Venus

    The Transit of Venus

    The Transit of Venus

    02005HD

    Nicky Hamlyn’s celestial overtures The Transit of Venus I & II form a diptych document of this astronomical phenomenon, one shot in black in...

    The Transit of Venus
  • 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
    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