Ian Helliwell
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Lift Off Apollo Pavilion
A short film composed of still images and electronic music, capturing the rugged brutalist beauty of Victor Pasmore's Apollo Pavilion, in Peterlee, County Durham. Helliwell composed the soundtrack and took more than 60 photographs of teh concerete structure in January 2020, combining these with animation and stills of NASA Apollo space missions to set the scene.0.0
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2020
Spinning Across Space
Experimental short film.0.0
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2019
Corroding Royals
Direct animation film using inks applied to found footage Super 8 film, originally shot in the 1970s directly from a TV screen featuring a broadcast of a Royal family occasion. The soundtrack was created using Hellitron tone generators.0.0
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2019
Corroding Royals
Direct animation film using inks applied to found footage Super 8 film, originally shot in the 1970s directly from a TV screen featuring a broadcast of a Royal family occasion. The soundtrack was created using Hellitron tone generators.0.0
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2019
Direction Finder
Experimental short film by Ian Helliwell.0.0
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2018
Letrasteps
Experimental short film by Ian Helliwell.0.0
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2017
Molecular Feedback
Continuing a series of films made with Helliwell’s simple hand held Hellicam video camera pointing at a monitor, in order to generate colour feedback patterns. The soundtrack is electronic music composed by the filmmaker.0.0
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2014
Escape the Light
The fourth in a series of abstract shorts started in 1998 – all shot with super 8, exploring light through different lenses and filters. This film also incorporates bleaching as well as colour inversion to achieve the final effect.0.0
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2014
Analysis of Leather
Roving, detecting, strobing. The short film features a soundtrack by Ian Helliwell.0.0
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2013
Bubbling Under
Abstract film shot with super 8 through a cylinder of coloured viscous liquid. The footage was bleached and finally cut up and inverted, with electronic sounds made using Hellitron tone generators.0.0
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2013
Practical Electronica
Ian Helliwell's 2011 documentary about an important and previously untold link in the history of early British Electronic Music, F.C. Judd.0.0
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2012
Drill Bits
Using a very small electric craft drill with different attachments, parts of the emulsion of black super 8 film were carefully etched away. Colour was added with felt tip pens, and the soundtrack created with the Hellisizer Compact.0.0
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2011
Letraglide
Strips of adhesive Letratone textures were applied to super 8 film; to create the soundtrack the edited movie was played back and registered by a special photocell controlled audio generator, and the resulting tones were modified through speed changing.0.0
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2011
Light Activation Feedback
The image was formed through a process of reflection and feedback. A modified video camera connected to a monitor and pointing at the screen, was triggered into feedback via reflections on the screen surface generated by a laser and randomly flashing LEDs . The resulting flow of electronic images was controlled through camera movements and variations in the light sources.0.0
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2010
The Motion Controllers
Recording the moving junk sculpture of Brighton collective Circus Kinetica, this super 8 film was shot on the seafront near their studio in the summer of 2009, with a mixture of live action, stop motion and superimposition. The soundtrack features Hellitron generators, radio and tape.0.0
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2009
Street Lights
Super-8 film of night and daytime cityscapes and illuminations, collected over several years and spliced together into a split-screen collage. The work is a mixture of home movie found footage, offcuts from various projects and specially filmed sequences, and has an electronic soundtrack to compliment the cut up collage style.0.0
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2008
Lines and Pulses
Continuing experiments with super 8 and stroboscopic effects, this work expands on Helliwell`s earlier flicker films, Patterns of Interference (2000) and Optical Action (2005). The images consist of concentric circles and horizontal, vertical and wavy lines which were filmed frame by frame, then bleached and coloured with ink. The electronic soundtrack was made using Hellitron tone generators.0.0
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2008
Grid
Circles in formation glide by, in this abstract direct animation film. Coloured inks were applied onto clear super-8 with felt-tip pens, using an old speaker grill as a stencil. Soundtrack: Hellitron tone generators.0.0
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2007
The Atomium Age
Split-screen film shot at the Atomium in Brussels, the centrepiece of the World`s Fair in 1958. The remarkable 335 feet high structure representing an iron crystal magnified 165 billion times, is captured with spontaneous super-8 camerawork, in all its silver spherical glory. Soundtrack: Hellisizer 2000, Hellitron generators.0.0
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2007
Signal Tracing
Abstract audio-generated waveform patterns from an oscilloscope and modified TV, were filmed with super-8 and then treated with bleach and vinegar. The electronic music features a special Hellitron photocell audio generator which reacts to varying amounts of light in the film. Soundtrack: Hellitron 10.0.0
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2007
Playing Up
Naturally decayed found Super-8 footage of children's and adult's games has been cut up with scissors and spliced back together to reveal new rhythms and connections. Soundtrack: Tape loop, keyboard and ring modulator, homemade Hellitron generators.8.0
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2007
Dash Dot
A completely cameraless hand scratched and coloured film, made by direct animation onto black super-8. All the shapes were scratched in using a draughtsman's stencil, and the colour added with felt tip pens. The soundtrack was made using Hellitron generators.0.0
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2006
Rust to Dust
A hand processed super-8 film shot at a Brighton cemetery, further enhanced with ink drawn directly onto the footage. The film`s texture arises from a combination of the rough processing, black ink and accumulation of dust particles.0.0
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2006
Get Set
A direct animation film made over a period of 3 years, using clear Super 8 covered with ink and overlaid with various Letraset shapes. The titles use paper cut-out animation, and the soundtrack features Helliwell's electronic sounds and improvisation on toy organ.0.0
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2005
Optical Action
Found Super 8 footage is the basis of this flicker film which has been hand treated with ink and bleach. Every other frame has been coloured with a black marker pen to create the flicker and cracked mosaic effect.0.0
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2004
Optical Action
Found Super 8 footage is the basis of this flicker film which has been hand treated with ink and bleach. Every other frame has been coloured with a black marker pen to create the flicker and cracked mosaic effect.0.0
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2004
Compound Eye
A film shot with super-8 using various distortion lenses in front of the camera; partly in real-time, partly animation. The footage has been treated with coloured inks and bleach and features a specially composed electronic music soundtrack.0.0
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2004
Beyond the Light
The final part of a trilogy of films started in 1998, exploring the filming of projected light through distorting lenses. Shot and edited on Super-8, the film features a carefully constructed electronic soundtrack made with Helliwell's tone generators.0.0
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2003
Crosshatch
The underlying chessboard image is derived from modified TV test pattern apparatus distorted by audio signals from a sinewave generator; filmed off a monitor with super 8, then coloured in with black ink and coated with household bleach. After initial editing on film it was compiled into positive, negative and split screen in a 1-2-4-2-1 sequence. The 4 track electronic music made with Helliwell's homemade circuits, also follows this symmetrical order.0.0
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2003
Angel Recovered
A Super-8 film shot in 1997, re-edited and reworked with ink and bleach applied directly onto the footage. Parts of the original action can still be seen, though the emphasis is placed on texture, colour and the electronic music soundtrack.0.0
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2003
Origami
Found super-8 footage giving a short demonstration in the art of paper folding; the film has been bleached and cut up, and accompanied by electronic music and animated titles. Soundtrack: Hellitron tone generators.0.0
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2003
Coloured Light District
Derived from found super-8 footage of night-time cityscapes shot in London and Berlin in the early 1970s, this once-silent amateur film of lights and neon signs has been reorganized through editing, superimposition and colour inversion, with Helliwell's soundtrack combining electronics, computer sounds and short wave radio signals.0.0
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2002
Coloured Light District
Derived from found super-8 footage of night-time cityscapes shot in London and Berlin in the early 1970s, this once-silent amateur film of lights and neon signs has been reorganized through editing, superimposition and colour inversion, with Helliwell's soundtrack combining electronics, computer sounds and short wave radio signals.0.0
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2002
Coloured Light District
Derived from found super-8 footage of night-time cityscapes shot in London and Berlin in the early 1970s, this once-silent amateur film of lights and neon signs has been reorganized through editing, superimposition and colour inversion, with Helliwell's soundtrack combining electronics, computer sounds and short wave radio signals.0.0
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2002
Particle Acceleration
Fast moving abstract film in two halves, gathering together Super-8 fragments and off-cuts shot over several years. The images include fairground lights and neon signs-- Images bleached, hand-coloured and edited into a frenetic collage.0.0
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2002
Colour Stream
Flowing lights and colours are the focus of this abstract film shot with super-8 through a close-up lens. Helliwell`s homemade electronics provide the rhythmic soundtrack.0.0
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2002
Orbiting the Atom
Electronically generated images, including Lissajous patterns from a modified television, were captured on Super-8 film and then treated by hand with coloured inks and bleach. Each of the five sections is closely matched by electronic music from Helliwell's customized circuits.0.0
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2002
Headache
A short section of found super-8 lip-reading film set in a doctor`s waiting room, covered in bleach, drastically edited and completed with titles and a soundtrack of homemade electronic music. The sounds, all generated with Helliwell`s unique electronic generators, create a jagged accompaniment to the cut-up images.0.0
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2002
Return to the Light
Evolving out of bleached off-cuts from the 1998 film 'Into The Light', this short abstract sequel overlays super 8 film shot directly into a projector beam.0.0
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2001
Patterns of Interference
A combination of 2 reels of super-8 animation, with driving electronic music, creating superimposed pulsing abstract patterns of stroboscopic intensity.0.0
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2000
Patterns of Interference
A combination of 2 reels of super-8 animation, with driving electronic music, creating superimposed pulsing abstract patterns of stroboscopic intensity.0.0
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2000
Crystallization
An abstract work originating from experiments in the early 1990s, using bleach, ink and scratching directly onto super 8 film. The recurring circular image was formed by placing droplets of bleach onto each frame with a pin. The electronic music, made with Helliwell's prototype customised circuits, has layers of sound changing phase during the course of the film.0.0
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2000
Rectangular Motion
An abstract film derived from coloured inks applied onto clear super 8; sprocket holes from different gauges of film were used as stencils, leaving behind hard-edged rectangular shapes amongst the swirling patterns of ink.0.0
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2000
Art Flies Free
A Super-8 portrait of Jeff Keen. This short but evocative experimental portrait melds Keen's style with that of its maker, Ian Helliwell, another artist filmmaker based in Brighton. The title comes from an adage of Jeff Keen's and features Keen reading some Keen-isms.0.0
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2000
Art Flies Free
A Super-8 portrait of Jeff Keen. This short but evocative experimental portrait melds Keen's style with that of its maker, Ian Helliwell, another artist filmmaker based in Brighton. The title comes from an adage of Jeff Keen's and features Keen reading some Keen-isms.0.0
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2000
Into the Light
An abstract Super-8 film made by shooting directly into the beam of a projector through a distorting lens. Shards of coloured light pierce the blackness, accompanied by electronic music from customised circuits.0.0
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1998
Our Honeymoon
Standard 8 found footage featuring a home movie wedding sequence in the 1960s. The film then goes behind the scenes to capture what happens afterwards in the newlywed`s honeymoon hotel room.0.0
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1997
Protection Leader
A found footage film made up entirely from super 8 leader, creating a frenetic collage of numbers, text, colours and processing information. Started around 1992, this evolved through many versions and spawned 2 companion films, Chromatic Leader (1996) and Megatherm Leader (2000).0.0
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1995
Multiform Feedback
A 2022 film by Ian Helliwell.0.0
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Protean Feedback
A film by Ian Helliwell.0.0
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