Area of Research Expertise

I graduated in Fine Art from Reading University in 1976. I have made over forty films, videotapes and installations since then.

Research Profile

Professor Nicky Hamlyn is a filmmaker and writer. His work has been shown at venues and festivals around the world. Recent screenings 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).

His book Film Art Phenomena (2003), a survey of experimental film and video, is published by the British Film Institute. Recent publications include an essay on the American filmmaker Stan Brakhage's Roman Numeral Series of films (Stan Brakhage: an American Filmmaker, Temple University Press, 2004) and on Peter Kubelka's film Arnulf Rainer (The Classic Avant Garde, Edinburgh University Press/Rodopi, 2007). He also writes for the journal Film Quarterly.

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.