FILM
Over more than 30 years, Philip Clemo has directed and shot over 30 short films, revealing unfamiliar perspectives on the world around us. Using cutting-edge technology, he explores what normally lies beyond human perception, inviting us to experience space and environment in immersive, visceral ways—more akin to how we experience music.
He has filmed chemical ‘galaxies’ in petri dishes, motion-controlled extreme-close-ups gliding over the human body, exploding gases in ultra-slow motion, and Iceland’s geothermal landscapes from a gyro-stabilised camera system mounted on a helicopter.
His work has been shown and acclaimed internationally, including at major film festivals and cultural institutions such as the V&A Museum and the Eden Project.
Philip Clemo welcomes conversations around licensing his slow-motion and macro cinematography, as well as commissions for new visual work.
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Phil Bodger & Martyn Barker's reworking of Stalker reshapes the tension with propulsive percussion and atmospherics. The video features thermal footage from Japan and performance sequences.
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Phil Bodger & Martyn Barker's reworking of Stalker reshapes the tension with propulsive percussion and atmospherics. The video features thermal footage from Japan and performance sequences.
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My 2024 album project grew out of one of the most challenging periods of my life, when my daughter became seriously ill. Dawn is a deeply personal track - a celebration of recovery and resilience.
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My 2024 album project grew out of one of the most challenging periods of my life, when my daughter became seriously ill. Dawn is a deeply personal track - a celebration of recovery and resilience.
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The first short film from Through the Wave of Blue album project. It follows Clemo as the protagonist, navigating an overwhelming maze of possibilities in a world of confusion and turmoil that threatens to tear him apart.
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The first short film from Through the Wave of Blue album project. It follows Clemo as the protagonist, navigating an overwhelming maze of possibilities in a world of confusion and turmoil that threatens to tear him apart.
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Official Selection at European Short Film Festival, 2021 and Semi-finalist at the Paris International Short Film Festival, 2022. You can purchase a limited edition copy @ seditionart.com/philip-clemo
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Official Selection at European Short Film Festival, 2021 and Semi-finalist at the Paris International Short Film Festival, 2022. You can purchase a limited edition copy @ seditionart.com/philip-clemo
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First Breath, produced by perfectmotion and edited by Adam Lavis, is a non-verbal trip from birth to death, illustrated through the diverse landscapes we inhabit, including our own bodies.
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First Breath, produced by perfectmotion and edited by Adam Lavis, is a non-verbal trip from birth to death, illustrated through the diverse landscapes we inhabit, including our own bodies.
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Lark is the third short film coming from the Dream Maps album. It explores confinement and escape as well as the dissolving of form. Thanks to Vision Research for its help in the making of this project.
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Lark is the third short film coming from the Dream Maps album. It explores confinement and escape as well as the dissolving of form. Thanks to Vision Research for its help in the making of this project.
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SHADOW SEAS, the second short film from Philip Clemo's Dream Maps album, illustrates a world of scrambled communication and the experience of being 'caught in the machine'. It delves into our shadow sides and explores the total disintegration of form and identity.
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SHADOW SEAS, the second short film from Philip Clemo's Dream Maps album, illustrates a world of scrambled communication and the experience of being 'caught in the machine'. It delves into our shadow sides and explores the total disintegration of form and identity.
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WATER IN THE FLOW is the first short film coming from PHILIP CLEMO'S 2016 album DREAM MAPS. The film was directed by Clemo and shot with his long-time collaborator Colin Gray. It features singer-songwriter Evi Vine who wrote the words and sang on the original piece.
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WATER IN THE FLOW is the first short film coming from PHILIP CLEMO'S 2016 album DREAM MAPS. The film was directed by Clemo and shot with his long-time collaborator Colin Gray. It features singer-songwriter Evi Vine who wrote the words and sang on the original piece.
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The first film in The Memory of Objects series, shot on location in the Château de Rochebonne, France. The original château was built in 1628 but razed to the ground in 1799 during the French Revolution. It was then split in two. It was occupied by the German army during World War II. This film explores the objects inside.
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A bee's eye view into the world of orchids. Orchids are considered to be the most highly evolved of flowering plants and when explored close up often appear to have almost human characteristics. Shot over three days in the greenhouses of Don Dennis' Living Tree Orchid Essences on the Isle of Gigha in the Scottish Hebrides, this is Philip Clemo's intimate interaction with these extraordinary plants.
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Entry for Virgin Media Shorts competition. Shot in Iceland and the UK, this short film explores this thought: if the estimated 4.5 billion years our planet has been in existence is equated to 24 hours, Homo sapiens have been around for 4 seconds.
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Some excerpts from Norway 2013 aurora shoot. Shot up in the Arctic Circle on an Arri Alexa movie camera.
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A series of film vignettes to pieces from the Mesmer album. These journeys explore unusual perspectives in natural and urban environments. 1) Nostalgia 2) Erasure 3) Escape 4) Seduction 5) Decay 6) New growth.
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As part of the Sigur Rós Valtari Mystery Film Competition Enter the Earth - become trapped in the endless cycles of life and death, creation and destruction. Then look upwards and transcend - rising to the sun as everything turns to dust below. Then the cycle begins again.
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Shot in Iceland for Philip Clemo's film 'The Air Holds Still On My Breath' this material became the inspiration for his Breath project. These landscapes excerpts illustrate the ambition and potential of the Breath feature film which is currently in development.
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A short film made to the composition 'Surfing Dreams & Chaos', written by Ysanne Spevack and Philip Clemo. The project was shot using specialist high-speed and timelapse camera technology on the ground, and from the air using an ultra-smooth gyro-stabilised camera mounted on a helicopter.The film is structured around the changing states of water: from ice, through liquid, to vapour, on a glacial journey to the sea.