Quartet

“Leading British avant-garde filmmaker Nicky Hamlyn is known for evoking the beauty in the everyday. His ‘Quartet’ comprises four variations on the same twenty shots of a flat, all beautiful ‘still lives.’ In the first two sections of the film, each shot contains an element of the subsequent shot, forming a necklace of images. These are strung together through a studied and sensual accumulation of time and space, both on the screen and in the imaginary. Thereafter, a release from structure compels us from contemplation toward memory and re-creation.” – Andréa Picard, Toronto International Film Festival