Double Negative presents: 16mm Films by Nicky Hamlyn (U.K.)

(Thursday) June 28th, 2007

Double Negative Collective presents:

Nicky Hamlyn: 16mm Films (1990 – 2005)
Artist in attendance

Cinema Parallele (Ex-Centris)
3536, boul. St-Laurent
9:15 p.m.
Special Price: $7.50
Info: http://www.ex-centris.com

Witness an evening of films by British avant-garde filmmaker Nicky Hamlyn. Hamlyn’s mostly silent films are concentrated, focused on the relationship between camera and place, maker and materials. Subtle shifts in focus, single-frame sequences, or time-lapse photography alter our perception of a tree, a wall, a garden trellis, a shadow, or a reflection. Space is alternately flattened and expanded. The gap in a fence, the opening between two sheets hanging on a laundry line reframe the outdoors, and nature in close-up becomes abstract and intensely colored, surprising us with its patterns, variability, and the sheer beauty of the mundane.

About the filmmaker:

Nicky Hamlyn studied Fine Art at the University of Reading. From 1979 to 1981 He was a workshop organizer at the London Filmmakers’ Co-op, where he was also a founder of and regular contributor to the Co-op’s magazine Undercut. He is currently a lecturer in Time Based media and Visual Theory at Kent Institute of Art and Design. His films have been screened at festivals and venues around the world.

As well as making films, Nicky Hamlyn has written a book about the subject: Film Art Phenomena, published by the British Film Institute, 2003.

Programme:

1. Minutiae (1 minute, colour, silent, 16mm, 1990)

2. Hole (2 minutes, colour, silent, 16mm, 1992)

3. White Light (22 minutes, silent, colour & black and white, 16mm, 1996)

4. Lux et Umbra (2 minutes, black and white, silent, 1999)

5. Matrix (7 minutes, colour, silent, 1999)

6. Not Resting (4 minutes, black and white, silent, 1999)

7. Pistrino (9 minutes, black and white, silent, 2003)

8. Penumbra (9 minutes, black and white, silent, 2003)

9. Object Studies (17 minutes, colour, silent, 2005)

10. Panni (3 minutes, colour, silent, 2005)

Total Time: 76 minutes