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A one-minute(ish) film with sound made in June/July 2021 for ‘Fields of View’, a screening event commemorating and celebrating the film writer, teacher and critic A.L. Rees.0.0
Year:
2021
Things Close At Hand
A short silent film made with footage shot on Super-8 Ektachrome between April and July 2020.0.0
Year:
2020
Around Low Tide
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Year:
2020
Room Film With Reflections
A seven-minute silent room film, shot on Ektachrome Super-8.0.0
Year:
2020
Untitled (Caribbean Garden)
A short film from one roll of Super-8 (Ektachrome 100D) with sound recorded in the same location.0.0
Year:
2019
Wittnerchrome Notes
Rough cinematic notes from the Cévennes filmed on Super 8 Wittnerchrome.0.0
Year:
2018
Hammam
A one-and-a-half minute silent film shot at a ruined Turkish Baths in Methoni, in the South-West Peloponnese, Greece. The stock was one cassette of Wittnerchrome 200D Super8, expertly transferred by Gauge Film.0.0
Year:
2018
Rack
Short silent film filmed on Super8 in a Greek backyard.0.0
Year:
2018
Wittnerchrome Notes II
Rough cinematic notes from the Cévennes filmed on Super 8 Wittnerchrome.0.0
Year:
2018
Obscura
A spontaneous camera obscura, which takes place each morning of clear skies in a house in the mountains, observed for many years before it was filmed. Filmed in Tri-X Reversal Super8.0.0
Year:
2018
Dark from Light
'Dark from Light' was shot in Arkadia and Messenia, Greece, in August 2018, in 16mm, and is silent.0.0
Year:
2018
Shanghai Notebook
A four-minute silent collection of fragments filmed in and around Shanghai in 2012.0.0
Year:
2018
Reflection
Filmed 20 years ago on the 16mm colour neg of the day, and recently edited, a one-minute silent room film.0.0
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2017
Episcopi
A short silent film shot on 16mm, of an olive grove in the Peloponnese, Greece.0.0
Year:
2017
Bed and Table
Evening light and a corner of abandonment, behind a house in France, filmed with 100 feet of expired Fuji film.0.0
Year:
2016
Arkadian Fragment
Shot in Cévennes, France and in Arkadia and Messenia, Greece, a brief memento mori.0.0
Year:
2016
Messenian Notebook
A film by Nick Collins0.0
Year:
2016
Gate (Taroudant)
A tiny silent film shot in a quarter of an hour in Morocco.0.0
Year:
2015
Three Little Pieces: Caravans & Verticals, Line of Light, and Marathos
These three short silent 16mm films explore framing and composition, colour, and negative and positive space, while presenting an account of the places where they were filmed.0.0
Year:
2015
Tape
A two-minute film of 100 feet of color negative on 16mm, shot quickly and on impulse while waiting for a boat on an island in the Cyclades.0.0
Year:
2015
Marathos (first version)
Filmed in an olive grove in Messenia, Greece, and t/k'd from Super-8. Silent, like most of my recent films.0.0
Year:
2014
Hilltop With Clouds
Filmed on a rocky ridge high up in the Cévennes mountains, directly above the location for the film "Mimente".0.0
Year:
2014
Tunxi
An afternoon on a balcony, in a town west of Shanghai.0.0
Year:
2014
Trissákia 3
The beauty of the ruins of a thirteenth-century Greek church is heightened by supernal light and shadow play.8.0
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2013
Field Study
Field Study explores movement of, and within, the-frame, in the context of the landscape of the Cévennes, in early spring.0.0
Year:
2013
In a winter landscape
December 2010 in the Cévennes.0.0
Year:
2013
Near Loutra Iraias
A two minute silent film from 100 feet of Ektachrome, filmed while at the Markopoulos Temenos in Arkadia in 2012.0.0
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2012
Temple of Apollo
A 16mm film shot in Greece, as one of the works in the Five Greek Films release.0.0
Year:
2012
At Pont du Tarn
Three pairs of elements in combination: rock and water; rock and trees; trees and water.0.0
Year:
2012
Snowfall and After
90 seconds silent film edited from 2 rolls of 100 feet reversible in black and white, filmed in my house, in my garden on the occasion of an unusually intense snowstorm.10.0
Year:
2012
An Afternoon
A film by Nick Collins0.0
Year:
2012
Dark Garden
Contours of light define the flowers and plants of a winter garden, filmed against the black expanse of the night sky.0.0
Year:
2011
Square and Mountain
A four-minute silent 16mm film observing the progress of an afternoon in a small square in a village in the Peloponnese.0.0
Year:
2010
Loutra|Baths
A 5 minute silent film of a 'cinematic building', a ruined Roman baths complex in Messenia, Greece.0.0
Year:
2010
Four Little Films: Frost Table, Tholos, Jasmine Tea, and Garden
Frost Table was filmed at dawn on the 1st of January 2008. It was so cold that the camera would barely turn, until the sun came up. The film is a very modest record of a moment in a place, with camera-movement making reference to the passage of days. Tholos is a film of a Mycenaean tomb at Nichoria in Messenia, Greece. Jasmine Tea unknowingly reprised a project given to students at at least one university, when they are short of ideas: make a film of a cup of tea! Garden examines an area of my garden, which can be sombre or joyful. Starting with minutiae, the film works its way outwards.0.0
Year:
2009
Tholos
"Tholos" focus on a Mycenaean tomb at Nichoria in Messenia, Greece.0.0
Year:
2009
Winter Film
Winter Film 20080.0
Year:
2008
Mimente
Reflections, shadows and an exploration of film movement and time, shot on/in a 100-yard stretch of the Mimente river in southern France.0.0
Year:
2008
Across the Valley
Across the Valley was shot, and the sound gathered, between July 2004 and January 2006, in the Cevennes, in the south of France. The film is from a single vantage point, a small area of flatness on the side of a steep vaclley. I filmed the view of the landscape from this point, through three of the four seasons, as well as elements of the scene closer to the camera. The resulting film draws on, and develops, my existing interests in the time-based representation of simultaneity, and in the temporal and sequencing possibilities inherent to film editing.0.0
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2006
Winter Woods
Winter Woods, made in the Cévennes in the south of France in December 2003, presents an epiphany of light in a mountain valley.0.0
Year:
2006
Cat & Flyscreen
A silent film by Nick Collins0.0
Year:
2005
Early Morning
The low winter light creates chiaroscuros in the bathroom, before the sun moves away from the horizon. Reflections and shadows on a decomposing mirror.0.0
Year:
2005
Tidemills
A placid 8.5 minute seaside film, filmed at Tidemills beach near Newhaven on the Sussex coast in summer 2003. It was shot on film (Kodak EXR 7248 as far as I remember) but only ever finished on DV. The sound is mono, recorded entirely where the footage was filmed, and entirely non-sync. There is one tiny audio dropout, where some oxide has dropped-off the now quite old master tape. The SuperSeaCat no longer runs between Newhaven end Dieppe, having been replaced by a much larger ferry, and parts of the land immediately behind the beach are now threatened with industrial development.0.0
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2003
Three Short Films
Three short films, made in 1997-99. The originals are 16mm prints with optical sound. Titles are 'Room with Two Mirrors', 'By the Woodyard' and 'Midday Shade'.0.0
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2000
Borough Market
A four-minute 16mm film of one of London's fruit and vegetable markets, made in 1995/96, a little while before its transformation into a temple of gastro-consumerism/gastro-tourism.0.0
Year:
1996
Trissákia
"Trissákia" documenting a ruined Byzantine church in the Mani, Laconia, Greece.0.0
Year:
1994
Views From a City
A film made between 1991 and 1993 as part of an Arts Council/Channel 4 series of commissions collectively entitled 'Eleventh Hour'. The film was not popular with those who commissioned it and was never broadcast, although it was shown in its original format, 16mm print, at a number of festivals. The film is a kind of personal reflection, in three linked sections, on cities and time, and on seeing, recording and the film medium. It is 18' 51" long, with mono sound.0.0
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1993
Cornish Winter Reeds and Skies
A short black-and-white silent film, shot in Cornwall in 1980, but not finished as a print until around 1989. Edited to a more-or-less strict mathematical rhythm in terms of numbers of frames within a shot (with some aberrations) , the film has a skeletal narrative running through it.0.0
Year:
1989
Sanday
Shot on Sanday, one of the Orkney islands, the film is in four sections, each representing (and transforming) the filmmaker's actions in and experience of a place at a particular time. Drawing on the qualities of these places and the long history of human habitation of the landscape (evidence for which goes back to 3500 BC), Nick Collins' intention was to make possible the experience of a series of linked mental/emotional states, seen through a landscape and movement within it.0.0
Year:
1988
Valletta
An early film by British experimental filmmaker Nick Collins. It combines bulbous, rapid-motion abstractions of greenery with a portrait of a cat, showing these elements individually and then projecting them on top of each other.5.0
Year:
1985
Self-Portrait
A short, silent, oblique self-portrait from 1983. Filmed on 16mm Kodachrome 40 and some black-and-white stock (the superimpositions were made in-camera) and reworked on the optical printer at the LFMC.0.0
Year:
1983
Souss
Short by Nick Collins0.0
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Looking In and Out (A Winter Diary)
"A short 16mm black-and-white sound film, from 1986. Closer to being a psychodrama than any of my other films, it centres on images are projected onto and refilmed from a misted-up window."0.0
Year:
1986
Winter into Spring
A little silent film from 1985, shot on Super8 and blown up to 16mm/reworked on the optical printer at the LFMC. The film comments on its time through its imagery, and at least to its maker still contains some of the feeling of that time.0.0
Year:
1985
After The Music by François Couperin: Les Barricades Mystérieuses
My first "real movie", which I started when I was a student, in 1978/79. An exploration / transformation of a mysterious house, black and white, with music by Couperin as indicated by the title. - Nick Collins0.0
Year:
1978