SELECTED FILMS (1992–2008)

by Nicky HAMLYN
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The 16mm films on this DVD reflect Hamlyn's early formation in painting and drawing, where intense observation was central to the effort to realise images of a visible world that is anything but straightforwardly apprehensible. All the work stems from the way the film medium lends itself to a particular way of structuring temporal images. In the case of film, as opposed to video, the characteristics and constraints of the technology push one towards a way of working with the frame as the basic spatio-temporal unit of construction.

This selection of films comprises townscapes, landscapes and interiors. Many of them were made spontaneously and quickly, even though they invariably contain sections composed of alternating frames and other structures that require precise calculations to be made. They are thus amalgams of planning and improvisation, containing totally structured sequences within looser overall structures. The ephemeral nature of space, light, rhythm and time is pinned down in numerically determined procedures and processes.

Nicky Hamlyn studied Fine Art at Reading University. Since 1974 his films, videos and installations have been shown at various festivals around the world, including: Media City, Windsor, Ontario; 'Views from the Avant-Garde' in New York; Images, Toronto; the Rotterdam Film Festival and London Film Festival. He has had one-person shows at: LUX, London; Ann Arbor; the San Francisco Cinemathque; Pacific Film Archives, Berkeley and EXIS, Seoul. He has written widely on artists' film and video. His book, Film Art Phenomena (2003) is published by the BFI. He is Professor of Experimental Film at the University for the Creative Arts in Kent and Surrey.

Extras: Thumbnail images from the selected films on a signed postcard.


CONTENT


HOLE
1992 / 16mm / coul-n&b / silencieux / 2' 00
by Nicky HAMLYN
MATRIX
1995 / 16mm / couleur / silencieux / 7' 00
by Nicky HAMLYN
NOT RESTING
1999 / 16mm / couleur / silencieux / 4' 00
by Nicky HAMLYN
PISTRINO
2003 / 16mm / n&b / silencieux / 10' 00
by Nicky HAMLYN
PANNI
2005 / 16mm / couleur / silencieux / 3' 00
by Nicky HAMLYN
OBJECT STUDIES
2005 / 16mm / couleur / silencieux / 16' 00
by Nicky HAMLYN
PRO AGRI
2008 / 16mm / couleur / silencieux / 3' 00
by Nicky HAMLYN

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release date 2012
publisher RGB Publishing
format DVD
zone 0 (region free)
running time 45 min.