Chris Welsby Movies

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...

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

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...

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

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...

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...

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 film is a continuous, "real time" tracking shot of a stream bed. The length of the track was ten yards. The camera was suspended in a motorized...

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

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...

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

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...

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...

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...

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

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...

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...