Nicky Hamlyn
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Nicky Hamlyn is a British filmmaker, artist and published author working in Structural film
. He has been making films for two decades. His work explores the basic elements of the filmic experience: the relationship between film space and the film frame, between time, flicker and movement, and between light and the material image. He contributes to journals such as Film Quarterly
and has published Film Art Phenomena on structural/material film. He was workshop organizer for the London Film-Makers' Co-op
in the late 1970s.
(Further bibliography of film works and full citations)
He graduated in Fine Art from Reading University in 1976 and is currently a Professor at the University for the Creative Arts in Maidstone, lecturing in video Media Arts and Visual Theory. He has exhibited films with a fellow Professor, the film director and writer Andrew Kotting
in 2008 at The George Rodger Gallery in Maidstone, Kent.
Screenings of his work have included include the Royal College of Art, London (2006) and the New York and Toronto International Film Festivals (2007).
He has had one-person shows at San Francisco Cinematheque, Pacific Film Archives, Berkeley and Double Negative, Montreal (2007).
In November 2009, h exhibited films in Unit B9, The Powerhub. This is a former commercial vehicles factory, situated by the river Medway in Maidstone and viewable from Maidstone East railway station. He exhibited in conjunction with a number of emerging artists including the photographer artist, Sebastian Edge. The work was entitled '5-9', intended to exploit the dusk to night time light of the semi-industrial urban landscape on this part of the river. All the work was designed to be projected onto the windows of the gallery, and can be viewed from the railway footbridge opposite, as well as from inside the building.
In his most recent work, produced on an artist's residency in Toronto, Nicky has been concerned with exploring and trying to refine the relationship between the camera and its profilmic. All the films are silent and have been made frame by frame, in the manner of animation, and include rural and urban landscapes and domestic interiors.
Structural film
Structural film was an experimental film movement prominent in the US in the 1960s and which developed into the Structural/materialist films in the UK in the 1970s.-Overview:The term was coined by P...
. He has been making films for two decades. His work explores the basic elements of the filmic experience: the relationship between film space and the film frame, between time, flicker and movement, and between light and the material image. He contributes to journals such as Film Quarterly
Film Quarterly
Film Quarterly is a film journal published by University of California Press, in Berkeley, California, United States. It was first published in 1945 as Hollywood Quarterly, was renamed The Quarterly of Film Radio and Television in 1951, and received its current title in 1958...
and has published Film Art Phenomena on structural/material film. He was workshop organizer for the London Film-Makers' Co-op
London Film-Makers' Co-op
The London Film-makers' Co-op, or LFMC, was a British film-making workshop founded in 1966. It ceased to exist in 1999 when it merged with London Video Arts to form LUX....
in the late 1970s.
(Further bibliography of film works and full citations)
He graduated in Fine Art from Reading University in 1976 and is currently a Professor at the University for the Creative Arts in Maidstone, lecturing in video Media Arts and Visual Theory. He has exhibited films with a fellow Professor, the film director and writer Andrew Kotting
Andrew Kötting
Andrew Kötting is a British film director, writer and artist.Kötting was born in Kent. He studied BA Fine Art at Ravensbourne College of Art and Design, London, 1984; MA in Mixed Media, Slade School of Art, London 1988. In 1989 he collaborated with Leila McMillan in setting up BadBLoOd & siBYL...
in 2008 at The George Rodger Gallery in Maidstone, Kent.
Screenings of his work have included include the Royal College of Art, London (2006) and the New York and Toronto International Film Festivals (2007).
He has had one-person shows at San Francisco Cinematheque, Pacific Film Archives, Berkeley and Double Negative, Montreal (2007).
In November 2009, h exhibited films in Unit B9, The Powerhub. This is a former commercial vehicles factory, situated by the river Medway in Maidstone and viewable from Maidstone East railway station. He exhibited in conjunction with a number of emerging artists including the photographer artist, Sebastian Edge. The work was entitled '5-9', intended to exploit the dusk to night time light of the semi-industrial urban landscape on this part of the river. All the work was designed to be projected onto the windows of the gallery, and can be viewed from the railway footbridge opposite, as well as from inside the building.
In his most recent work, produced on an artist's residency in Toronto, Nicky has been concerned with exploring and trying to refine the relationship between the camera and its profilmic. All the films are silent and have been made frame by frame, in the manner of animation, and include rural and urban landscapes and domestic interiors.