Film Art Phenomena

Alongside the commercial cinema of narrative and spectacle there has always been another practice — call it avant—garde, experimental or artists' film (as opposed to art cinema). It is this work that Nicky Hamlyn, himself an acclaimed film—maker in the alternative tradition, investigates in Film Art Phenomena. The work takes its cue from modern trends in other artforms, notably painting and sculpture. This is film—making that emphasises the nature of its apparatus and medium in order to bri...