Nicky Hamlyn Movies

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...

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...

2008 Nicky Hamlyn short experimental work

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

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...

"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...

Panni is a visually arresting work in its formal structure and visual expression of colors. The subject matter of the film is a row of bed sheets...

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

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...

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

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...

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

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

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.

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...