Nicky Hamlyn's recent 16mm films at The Film Gallery, Paris
28. September - November 2015
Vernissage 25. September 2015, 18-21h

The Film Gallery is delighted to present Brownian Motion, an exhibition of 16mm film works by experimental filmmaker Nicky Hamlyn, both produced in 2015. Nicky Hamlyn has been active in the British experimental film scene, most notably the London Filmmaker’s Coop, since the mid 1970s. He is mainly known for his precisely structuredobservational 16mm films and video works dealing with light, time and space. Hamlyn traces brief, transitional moments, studying the changes of surface structure, materiality and patterns of movement in our everyday environment. His films are compositions of brief transitional and ephemeral moments in time and space, bringing to light the overlooked or the soon to be extinct. This is achieved by deploying mechanisms such as time-lapse filming, single-frame shooting and superimposed fades in and out (dissolves). The show Brownian Motion at The Film Gallery brings his diverse film and video work for the first time to a French gallery. 

“I tried to film what was going on around me and value it as much as the heroics of the big screen.”—Saul Levine

With a monumental filmography that dates back almost fifty years and seems to grow monthly (if not weekly), Saul Levine (b. 1943) long ago established himself as a central figure in American experimental cinema. He is also a key member of the filmmaking community in Boston and Cambridge, not only because of his own work but also for his passionate, tireless and inspiring roles as both a professor at the Massachusetts College of Art and Design and the programmer of the MassArt Film Society, one of the foremost venues for experimental cinema in the area. The Harvard Film Archive is extremely excited to present the first in a number of programs designed to help local audiences acquaint, or re-acquaint, themselves with Levine’s impressive body of work, from the beginnings to the present day.

Microscope welcomes Roger Beebe back to the gallery for the last Event of our 2014-15 Season. For the evening, Beebe has curated a night of selections from a decade of FLEXFest by filmmakers working outside of the tradition epicenters of experimental film New York City, San Francisco, and Chicago.

With works by Drew Christie, Lauren Cook, Christopher Harris, Jason LaRay Keener and J. Ledbetter, Jesse McLean, Jodie Mack, Kristin Reeves, Kelly Sears, Brendan and Jeremy Smyth, Scott Stark, Robert Todd.