Nicky Hamlyn Movies

1999 Nicky Hamlyn experimental short film

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...

2008 Nicky Hamlyn short experimental work

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

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...

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...

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

"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...

A video work by Nicky Hamlyn

A video work by Nicky Hamlyn

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

A study in contrast, colour and moiré pattern in a public park in Windsor, Ontario, Canada. The film connects with a series of paintings by...

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...

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

A video work by Nicky Hamlyn

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...

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...