Chris Welsby Movies

A camera recorded one frame every minute (day and night) for two separate three-week periods in autumn and spring. The film is shown on two adjacent...

In Momentum the fallibility of human aspiration and the comparatively certainty of concrete, are both seen to be parts of a constantly changing river...

WHITE OUT was recorded and edited one cold morning in February 2021. It’s about how light looks when it’s falling on snow and how snow...

The location is a small bay in Wales, this bay faces due north over the Irish sea. It has high ground to the east and west and low ground to the...

This film is based on the colour separation process. High contrast film stock was run three times through a stationary camera; once for each of the...

Estuary was made during the three weeks between December 17th 1979 and January 6th 1980. The film was shot from a small cabin boat moored near the...

From LUX: "Welsby adopts a system of camera movements to chart the movement of tides, waves and sky".

Two cameras mounted on tripods with wind vane attachments were positioned about 50 feet apart along an axis of 45 degrees to the direction of the...

An idyllic river flows through a forest, flashes of light and colour threaten to erase the image, bursts of short wave radio and static invade the...

The camera was placed on the flexible branch of a tree in a strong wind. The composition included both stationary and moving trees (a wooded...

Windmill II is one of a series of films (Wind Vane, Anemometer, Tree, Park, Estuary etc.) which uses an element present within the frame as a...

The location for this film is a small London park which is situated close to the busy centre of the city. The camera faces south east across the...

At this time of year, the ocean is still very cold from the long northern winter but the land is heating rapidly. The results is the formation of...

This is not so much a film about a park, or a record of the people passing through the park. Here the camera is not a passive observer, nor is it...

The overall feel of Drift is sombre and mysterious; a study of winter light falling on the surface of water, metal and cloud. The dominant colour is...

The film was shot in one continuous 400 foot take. The camera looks through the blades of the windmill, recording either what is behind or in front...

A London park and artist Chris Welsby runs repeatedly into frame and off into the distance; his actions contrast with the more leisurely activities...

Seven Days invites the viewer to contemplate the complex relationship between the structures we invent in order to observe the natural world and the...

Gusts of wind on Hampstead Heath give shape to an exploratory film that seeks to present landscape in a different way.

My intention was to make a video in ironic celebration of the increasingly inexplicable human obsession with the automobile, while simultaneously...