Chris Welsby Movies

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...

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...

The notion of a line which divides the land from the sea is a notion of convenience which is only valid in certain circumstances. If there is a line...

Shot in the Sonora desert, Mexico in March 2017 "Desert Spring" is a joyful little dance between camera (autofocus), the wind and some flowering...

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

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...

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...

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

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 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...

In the early afternoon a cool breeze raises white caps on the ocean before rushing busily inland. The palm trees respond with broad circular gestures...

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...

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

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...

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...

Strapped high on a moving branch of a palm tree, the camera sways gracefully in the ocean breeze. In the frame we see other waving branches, their...

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

As the harsh reality of Climate Change takes hold in the public imagination, the idea of nature as landscape becomes increasingly inappropriate....

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...

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...