Reverberations # 4: Nicky Hamlyn
Tuesday 16 June 2009, from 7pm
In the fourth edition of our Reverberations series, presented as part of "Cut & Splice: Living Rooms", renowned UK artist and writer Nicky Hamlyn will critique his locational approach to filmmaking though a talk, film screening and new expanded film/sound performance with Conor Kelly.
Using sound and 16mm film recorded and developed prior to, and during the evening, Hamlyn and Kelly's performance will use the site-specificity of Wilton's Music Hall to address questions of time and recording, representation and presentation.The evening will also include a screening of 'room films' selected by Hamlyn including work by Peter Gidal and Vincent Grenier.
Professor Nicky Hamlyn studied fine art at Reading University and has made over forty films, videos and installations since then. His films have been shown at festivals and screenings around the world and his book Film Art Phenomena was published by the BFI in 2003. He is senior lecturer in Video Arts Production and Visual Theory at University for the Creative Arts, Maidstone, and a visiting lecturer at the Royal College of Art. His recent work has been concerned with exploring and trying to refine the relationship between the camera and its profilmic.
Conor Kelly is an artist who has made a number of site-specific installations that have been shown internationally at various spaces and galleries. His work explores the fundamental relationship between sound and video image; the visual recording of the physical world often being used as a template for the production of a musical or sound-based score. He is senior lecturer in Photography and Video Arts at University for the Creative Arts, Maidstone. He is represented by Green On Red Gallery, Dublin.
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Wilton's Music Hall
Graces Alley, off Ensign Street, London, E1 8JB
Nearest Tube: Tower Hill / Aldgate East
FREE admission, booking essential.
Telephone: 020 7729 4494
Email: <[email protected]>
www.wiltons.org.uk
www.soundandmusic.org
www.no-w-here.org.uk
Nicky Hamlyn Workshop: Room Films
Thursday 25 & Friday 26 June 2009, from 10.30am to 4.30pm
Taking its cue from Hamlyn's Reverberations event, this two-day practical workshop with the artist will take a look at his locational approach to filmmaking by investigating and experimenting with the notion of 'room films'. The spatial and psychological dimensions of interior spaces and rooms have been an enduring subject of many experimental filmmakers including Hamlyn himself, Peter Gidal, Mirza/Butler, Vincent Grenier and Michael Snow.
Participants will learn how to operate a Bolex 16mm camera from one of the masters of the medium and will experiment with the way it may be used as a thinking tool to explore interior space. They will then go on to look at how their footage can be shaped further in the lab through the creative and unconventional use of no.w.here's contact printer - a machine commonly used to create graded 16mm film prints.
All materials will be provided in the cost, and no prior experience is necessary.
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no.w.here
316-318 Bethnal Green Road, London, E2 0AG
Nearest Tube: Bethnal Green
Fee: £80 / £60 members & concessions
Telephone: 020 7729 4494
Email: <[email protected]>