# Chris Welsby [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Welsby) · [*Lost Lake #2*](https://vimeo.com/37384785) ( b. 1948 ) ## Description British-Canadian filmmaker and a member of the [[London Film-Makers' Co-op]], known for structural/materialist landscape films whose camera movements, framing, and duration are set by natural forces — sun, wind, tides — rather than by the filmmaker's hand, and for being an early exhibitor of film installation work in London galleries. ## Key Tags #structural-materialist #expanded-cinema #lfmc #canadian-avant-garde #scemfa #landscape ## Essential Works - *Wind Vane* (1972) - camera panning controlled directly by a wind vane, translating wind direction into image - *Seven Days* (1974) - week-long time-lapse structural landscape film - *Lost Lake #2* - landscape film using natural-force camera control ([Vimeo](https://vimeo.com/37384785)) ## Details Central to British structural/materialist film's landscape strand: rather than composing shots by eye, Welsby built systems (wind vanes, tidal and solar cycles, fixed durations) that let natural forces themselves determine camera angle, framing, and duration — foregrounding the film apparatus's mechanical relationship to its subject. Active in the London Film-Makers' Co-op and an early exhibitor of expanded, gallery-based film installation work in London. ### Concepts and Theories - [[Avant Garde Film]] - exemplary case of British structural/materialist landscape film ### Creative and Technical Practices %% none yet %% ### Collaborators %% none yet %% ### Institutional Affiliations and Associated Movements - [[London Film-Makers' Co-op]] - member; early exhibitor of film installation work in London galleries ## References ### Primary Sources Bibliography %% none yet %% ### Secondary Sources Bibliography %% none yet %%