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Closer

2016
Producer / Writer / Director / Camera / Image / Sound / Editor

Scott Barley
︎ 7  ︎1.1:1 & 18.25:1 ︎4K
︎ Intervalometered photography with multiple exposures
︎ 5.1 (mainly silent)
︎ Final Cut Pro
Synopsis

Upon liminal spheres where dreams are woven,
Adrift between stars and the trees,
I pass closer to the golden dawn.

There’s a warmth beyond the shadow.
I feel the aurum under my eyelids,
And I hope the birds will sing.

Oh, I hope I will hear the birds sing...

Perhaps a knowledge that never comes.


for David Robert Jones
8th January 1947 — January 10th 2016
Where to Watch  ︎ 

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Stills
In Production
Within Without Horizon, Directed by Scott Barley – unreleased The Flesh, Directed by Scott Barley – unreleased The Sea Behind Her Head, Directed by Scott Barley – unreleased


Completed
To the Moon (2020), Scott Barley, Tadhg O'Sullivan Wind (2019), Directed by Scott Barley Womb (2017), Directed by Scott Barley Passing (2013–2017), Directed by Scott Barley The Green Ray (2017), Directed by Scott Barley Sleep Has Her House (2017), Directed by Scott Barley Hinterlands (2016), Directed by Scott Barley Closer (2016), Directed by Scott Barley Blue Permanence/Swan Blood (2015), Directed by Scott Barley Hunter (2015), Directed by Scott Barley The Sadness of the Trees (2015), Directed by Scott Barley, Mikel Guillen Shadows (2015), Directed by Scott Barley Evenfall (2015), Directed by Scott Barley Hours (2015), Directed by Scott Barley Polytechnique (2014), Directed by Scott Barley, Easychord Ille Lacrimas (2014), Directed by Scott Barley Nightwalk (2013), Directed by Scott Barley Irresolute (2013), Directed by Scott Barley Retirement (2013), Directed by Scott Barley Glass Truth (2012–2013), Directed by Scott Barley The Ethereal Melancholy of Seeing Horses in the Cold (2012), Directed by Scott Barley Untitled (2011-2012) installation, Directed by Scott Barley


Uneleased
Eviscerations (2017), Directed by Scott Barley Midnight (2017), Directed by Scott Barley – unreleased Mouths in the Grass (2016–2017), Directed by Scott Barley – unreleased Painting (I) (2016), Directed by Scott Barley – unreleased Death is a Photograph (2013–2015), Directed by Scott Barley – unreleased Too Young to Die (2014–2015), Scott Barley – unreleased

Work with other filmmakers & artists

Completed
  • Silent Friend
    Ildikó Enyedi, 2025
    production consultant

  • The Occupant of the Room
    Kier-La Janisse, 2025
    colourist & visual artist

  • Standing at the Ruins
    Saeed Taji Farouky, TBA)
    cinematographer & visual artist

  • To the Moon
    Tadhg O’Sullivan, 2020
    cinematographer, visual artist, musician

  • Wind 
    Emmit Fenn, 2019
    director, cinematographer, editor

  • The Sadness of the Trees 
    • 2015
    collaboration with Mikel Guillen 


Unreleased
  • ‘The Speed of Dark’
    collaboration with Phil Solomon

For screening inquiries, commissions, collaborations, lecturing and mentorship,
or any other inquiries, please get in touch ︎






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