Nicky Hamlyn Movies

White Light consists of extreme close-up shots of chrome bath taps and their reflections, including the camera lens, which becomes its own subject,...

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

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...

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.

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...

"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...

2008 Nicky Hamlyn short experimental work

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

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

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...

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

A video work by Nicky Hamlyn

A video work by Nicky Hamlyn

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...

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...

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...

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

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