Nicky Hamlyn
Nicky Hamlyn: Selected works 1974-2012
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Original format 16mm, video
Year 1974-2012
Language(s) English
Artist(s) Nicky Hamlyn
Running time 117 min
Films
SILVER STREET (1974-5) 4'
THAT HAS BEEN (1984) 38'
MINUTIAE (1990) 1'
TELLY (1995) 5'
WHITE LIGHT (1996) 22'
FOUR TORONTO FILMS (2007) 16'
QUARTET (2007) 8'
TOBACCO SHED (2010) 10'
LUX ET UMBRA (1999) 2'
TRANSITS OF VENUS (2005/2012) 5'
ZÖETROPE (2008) 3'
AUTOGRILL VERGHERETO (2008) 3'
Description
Nicky Hamlyn is one of the leading British artist-filmmakers of the last thirty years. Working in 16mm film and video, he has produced a significant body of single-screen works as well as installations in both media. His current practice divides into two distinct approaches, depending on the medium used. In most of his film work, he focuses on developing structures derived as closely as possible from the very form of the subject. In recent years, his subjects have been primarily architectural, but also topographical. He often works frame-by-frame, in the manner of an animator, a method that emphasizes the importance of the individual photogram as a building block for larger structures.
His aim, in seeking to establish a reciprocal relationship between the photogram, the frame edges, and the formal properties of the subject, is to eliminate subjective decisions related to framing and let the given parameters exert a determining influence.
Conversely, much of his video work explores spontaneous interactions between complex events—for example, the undulating movements of overlapping curtains—and the video technology used to record and process the captured data. This DVD brings together for the first time his major film and video works produced over the last thirty-eight years, accompanied by new essays by Simon Payne and Federico Windhausen.