Chris Welsby
Born: 1948-01-01 in Exeter, UK
Known For: Directing
Biography
Chris Welsby is a British/Canadian experimental filmmaker, digital media and installation artist. In the 1970s he was a member of the London Film-Makers' Co-op (now LUX film distributors), and co-founder of the Digital Media Studio (now Slade Centre for Electronic Media in Fine Art) at the Slade School of Fine Arts, UCL, London. He is considered one of the pioneers of expanded cinema and moving image installation and was one of the first artists to exhibit film installations at the Tate and Hayward galleries London. His expanded cinema works and installations have since continued to break new conceptual ground and attract critical attention. A. L. Reece, in British Film Institute's A History of Experimental Film and Video, wrote: "Twenty-five years ago, when he made his first projections for large spaces, film and art rarely met in the gallery; now it is common and installation art is a distinct practice."
Filmography
2021
- White Out ... (Director)
2020
- Casting Light ... (Director)
2019
- Crocodile Dreams ... (Director)
- Tree Again ... (Director)
2017
- Desert Spring ... (Director)
2016
- Mercury ... (Director)
2015
- Momentum ... (Director)
- Entrance Island ... (Director)
1994
- Drift ... (Director)
1988
- Sky Light ... (Director)
1980
- Estuary ... (Director)
1979
- Sea/Shore ... (Director)
1976
- Stream Line ... (Director)
- Colour Separation ... (Director)
1975
- Wind Vane II ... (Director)
1974
- Tree ... (Director)
- Windmill III ... (Director)
- Seven Days ... (Director)
- Anemometer ... (Director)
1973
- Park Film ... (Director)
- Fforest Bay ... (Director)
- Windmill II ... (Director)
- Fforest Bay II ... (Director)
- Winter and Summer ... (Director)
1972
- Running Film as himself
- Wind Vane ... (Director)
- River Yar ... (Director)