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Painting (I)

(2016–2017) unreleased

Synopsis
A 30-second long moving shot of tree branches in the night is abstracted by slowing the original footage down to 360 minutes, rendering the movement in the shot imperceptible to the naked eye, in a sense undoing all that is conventionally considered cinema, revealing the tension between still image and moving image, and raising the question of the limits of optical perception, and what is cinema?


Technical Information
360 minutes
16:9 aspect ratio
2K resolution
Silent

iPhone 6 Plus
Edited with Final Cut Pro X


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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