Scott Barley
Scott Barley | |
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Born | |
Nationality | British |
Alma mater | Kingston University, University of South Wales, Cardiff Metropolitan University |
Known for | Cinema |
Notable work | Sleep Has Her House |
Movement | Remodernist film, Slow cinema, Experimental Film |
Website | http://www.scottbarleyfilm.com |
Scott Barley (born 11 November 1992, Wales, UK) is a British filmmaker and artist.[1][2][3] His work has been associated with the Remodernist and Slow cinema movements, and are primarily concerned with the anthropocene, nature, darkness, cosmology, phenomenology, and mysticism.[4][5][6] His filmmaking methods have been compared to David Lynch, Stan Brakhage, Philippe Grandrieux, Béla Tarr, Alexander Sokurov, Maya Deren and Jean Epstein.[7][8][9][10]
Since early 2015, Barley has almost exclusively shot his films on an iPhone. He is most well known for the 2017 experimental film, Sleep Has Her House.
Style and themes[]
Barley's approach to filmmaking is similar to that of "personal" and poetic avant-garde filmmakers, Stan Brakhage, Jonas Mekas, Nathaniel Dorsky and Peter Hutton, but the post-production process is unique to both mainstream and avant-garde filmmaking praxes.[11]
"I always begin a film almost like one would keep a diary. I have no idea, or agenda to make a film. I simply document. I shoot what attracts me, random things, animals, variances in light, the water, the stars; simply what draws me in on different days, different nights, in different places. Once I have built up a body of footage, I start to see connections. These pieces of footage could be taken months or even years apart – and miles apart too. [I] then invisibly stitch [the different shots] together into one larger shot or sequence. But these connections between different pieces of footage all happen organically. I never force these connections. I never force a film when it doesn’t come. The films find me – not the other way round [...] All my films have been made this way. Some happen quicker than others. Once these connections are established, a narrative - through images - begins to germinate."
Barley's films are low-budget or no budget, and have been shot on iPhone since 2015.
Filmography[]
Title | Running time | Released (Year) |
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Womb | 17 min | 2017 |
Passing | 2 min | 2017 |
The Green Ray | 12 min | 2017 |
Sleep Has Her House | 90 min | 2017 |
Hinterlands | 7 min | 2016 |
Closer | 7 min | 2016 |
Blue Permanence / Swan Blood | 6 min | 2015 |
Hunter | 14 min | 2015 |
The Sadness of the Trees | 12 min | 2015 |
Shadows | 20 min | 2015 |
Evenfall | 6 min | 2015 |
Death is a Photograph | - | unreleased |
Hours | 3 min | 2015 |
Ille Lacrimas | 20 min | 2014 |
Polytechnique | 12 min | 2014 |
Nightwalk | 6 min | 2013 |
Irresolute | 2 min | 2013 |
Retirement | 3 min | 2013 |
GLASS / TRUTH | 4 min | 2013 |
The Ethereal Melancholy of Seeing Horses in the Cold | 4 min | 2012 |
Untitled (installation with video) | 3 min | 2012 |
References[]
- ^ "IMDb - Scott Barley filmmaker page". IMDb. The International Movie Database. Retrieved 27 March 2017.
- ^ "MUBI Notebook/The Wind that Shakes the Barley: Scott Barley's "Sleep Has Her House"". MUBI. James Slaymaker. Retrieved 28 March 2017.
- ^ "Scott Barley Film". scottbarleyfilm.com. Retrieved 2020-01-03.
- ^ "Le Cinéma Remoderniste Histoire et Théorie d'une Esthétique Contemporaine". Google Docs. Florian Maricourt, Nicole Brenez. Retrieved 27 March 2017.
- ^ "Scott Barley / Creating in the Digital Era". 25fps. Milan Kroulík. Retrieved 25 March 2017.
- ^ "Sleep Has Her House". Lo Specchio Scuro. Lorenzo Baldassari. Retrieved 28 March 2017.
- ^ "Cliacom". Climacom Film Journal. Universidade Estadual de Campinas. Retrieved 27 March 2017.
- ^ "Lo Specchio Scuro/Scott Barley". Lo Specchio Scuro Film Journal. Lorenzo Baldassari. Retrieved 27 March 2017.
- ^ "Onscreen/Offscreen: The "terrible sublime" of Sleep Has Her House". Georgia Straight Vancouver's News & Entertainment Weekly. 2017-09-22. Retrieved 2018-07-30.
- ^ "Sheffield Doc/Fest: Sheffield International Documentary Festival". www.sheffdocfest.com. Retrieved 2020-01-03.
- ^ Chang, Dustin (2017-06-15). "Interview: Scott Barley on Sleep Has Her House". www.dustinchang.com. Retrieved 2017-06-15.
External links[]
- 1992 births
- Living people
- British experimental filmmakers