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SLEEP HAS HER HOUSE

A FILM BY SCOTT BARLEY
2017 | 2023 remaster, 90 MINUTES

2K • 5.1 surround • Digital Site License

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Film Description

Scott Barley's Sleep Has Her House is a transcendent work of experimental and contemplative cinema—a hypnotic, wordless meditation on darkness and nature.

Shot entirely on iPhone, the film unfolds through long static takes that blur the boundaries between live action, still photography, and hand-drawn images, creating a contemplative, deeply sensorial experience.

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Sleep Has Her House (Second Edition)
77 pages
^{Book Contents:

Scott Barley In The Kingdom of Noumena

Foreword by Nicole Brenez

On Darkness

by Scott Barley

Revolutions of the Digital: Sleep Has Her House

by James Slaymaker

Darkling Vigil

by Maximilian Le Cain

Painting with Numbers: The Fine Art of Digital Chronophotography

by Greg Hainge

The Earth Died Screaming: Reflections on Sleep Has Her House

by Daniel & Clara

The World Without Us / The World With Us

by Graiwoot Chulphongsathorn

Feel–thinking Sleep Has Her House

by Kevin John Bozelka

A Horizon, Under Nightfall

by Scott Barley}

Awards & Recognition

• Winner, Best Film (Jury Award), Fronteira International Documentary & Experimental Film Festival

• Sight & Sound’s Greatest Films of All Time Poll, 2022

Press

“The single most momentous hour and a half in the dark this year, a tenebrous landscape film shapeshifting between reality and nightmare, cinema and dream.” — Tom Charity, Sight & Sound

“Barley invites us to see the world—and the cinematic image—anew.” — James Slaymaker, MUBI Notebook

“Barley has more in common with Caspar David Friedrich than any contemporary avant-gardist, finding the terrible sublime through grand footage shot on nothing less than an iPhone.” — Josh Cabrita, The Georgia Straight

“Scott Barley is one of the most gifted visual poets of his generation.” — Dr Nicole Brenez

“Tthe Anselm Kiefer of cinema.” — Tue Steen Müller, Filmkommentar

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