Chris Welsby

Personal Info

Known For Director

Gender Male

Birthday 1948-01-01 (76 years old)

Place of Birth Exeter, UK

Chris Welsby

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."

Known For

Director

2021
White Out

as Director

2020
Casting Light

as Director

2019
Tree Again

as Director

2019
Crocodile Dreams

as Director

2017
Desert Spring

as Director

1994
Drift

as Director

1988
Sky Light

as Director

1980
Estuary

as Director

1979
Sea/Shore

as Director

1976
Stream Line

as Director

1976
Colour Separation

as Director

1975
Wind Vane II

as Director

1974
Seven Days

as Director

1974
Anemometer

as Director

1974
Windmill III

as Director

1974
Tree

as Director

1973
Park Film

as Director

1973
Windmill II

as Director

1973
Fforest Bay II

as Director

1973
Winter and Summer

as Director

1972
Wind Vane

as Director

1972
River Yar

as Director

1972
Running Film

as Director

Actor

1972
Running Film

as himself