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Sleep Has Her House

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Sleep Has Her House
Digitally remastered video and sound
90 minutes    1.33:1 aspect ratio    1080p    5.1 Dolby Digital    
with Scene Selection

Extras
Sleep Has Her House signed artwork print
Unique print of a frame from the film, signed by Scott Barley
Dimensions: 12 x 15 cm

Short films

Hinterlands (2016)
Digitally remastered video and sound
7 minutes    1.33:1 aspect ratio    1080p    5.1 Dolby Digital    

Womb (2017)
Digitally remastered video and sound
16 minutes    2.13:1 aspect ratio    1080p    5.1 Dolby Digital    

Gallery

Frames
Deleted Sequences
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Scott Barley is an artist-filmmaker based in Scotland. His work is primarily concerned with the anthropocene, nature, darkness, absence, cosmology, phenomenology, and mysticism.

He has exhibited at film festivals and art galleries worldwide, including ICA London, Jeu de Paume Paris, Doclisboa, Karlovy Vary IFF, Venice Biennale, QAGOMA, MoMA Río de Janeiro, and MoCA Busan.

Since 2015, Scott has made films solo, switching from ARRI cameras and larger crews to almost exclusively shooting his films on iPhone, and carrying out all aspects of production (direction, writing, cinematography, sound, post-production, and distribution) himself, with an emphasis on poetics, nature, and environmental sustainability.

His work has been been written about in Sight and Sound, MUBI Notebook, Film Comment, Frieze, Screen, and Sabzian, and have been the subject of academic analysis at conferences and in theses at the University of Melbourne, Goldsmiths, Université Sorbonne Nouvelle Paris, University of Porto, and Stavanger Art Museum Norway.

His short film, Hinterlands was voted one of the best films of 2016 in Sight and Sound's annual film poll. Scott's first feature, Sleep Has Her House was released in 2017. It received the Jury Award for Best Film at Fronteira International Documentary & Experimental Film Festival, Brazil. It later received nominations in Sight and Sound’s 2017 and 2018 annual best film polls.

In 2018, Barley co-founded Obscuritads — an international collective focused on “rendering the invisible visible” through cinema, fine art, digital ecologies and their intersection — with filmmaker, Mikel Guillen (Toronto) and curator and programmer, Miquel Escudero Diéguez (Paris, Barcelona). American filmmaker, Phil Solomon (1954–2019) is an honorary member.

In 2020, film historian, and Jean-Luc Godard's editor for Le Livre d’Image (Cannes Film Festival’s Special Palme d'Or Winner) Nicole Brenez cited Sleep Has Her House as one of the ten best films of the decade, after previously writing that “[Barley’s] films renew our conception of visuality”, and describing him as “one of the most gifted visual poets of his generation”. In a lecture given at Université Sorbonne Nouvelle, Paris, she placed him in the pantheon of visionary artists, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Jean Epstein, and Stan Brakhage.

In 2022, Sleep Has Her House was included in the decennial Sight and Sound poll of The Greatest Films of All Time, receiving votes in both the Critics’ and Directors' polls as one of the ten greatest films ever made. A revised and remastered version of the film was completed in 2023. 

Outside of his own solo filmography, Barley has worked with other filmmakers as a cinematographer, multimedia artist, and consultant. He was cinematographer and multimedia artist for To the Moon (Tadhg O’Sullivan, 2020) with Jimmy Gimferrer, cinematographer for Birdsong and Story of My Death (Albert Serra, 2008, 2013), Joshua Bonetta (El Mar La Mar, 2017), and artist-filmmaker, Margaret Salmon. 

As a pre-production consultant, he contributed to the upcoming tenth feature film, Silent Friend (starring Léa Seydoux and Tony Leung Chiu-wai) by Academy Award nominee Ildikó Enyedi (On Body and Soul, Golden Bear winner, 2017) with Sleep Has Her House and several of Barley’s short films informing the film.

He is currently working with Palestinian-British filmmaker, Saeed Taji Farouky (A Thousand Fires, Winner of Marco Zucchi Award, Locarno 2021) as a cinematographer and artist on his upcoming feature film.

Barley has taught Film, Television and Visual Arts internationally from foundation to doctorate levels, including at Winchester School of Art, American University of Paris, Karlsruhe University of Arts and Design, University of Chile, and Centre for Visual Communications Belgrade. He has worked at Falmouth University as an Associate Lecturer in Film and Television since 2020, and as a Research Associate at the Sound/Image Cinema Lab since 2024. He has worked as an external mentor for Film London's FLAMIN Fellowship programme and L’Alternativa Professionals Barcelona, advising on all stages of film production. He is available for lectures, masterclasses, private tuition and consultation services worldwide.

Danish film critic, and former director of the European Documentary Network, Tue Steen Müller has described him as the “Anselm Kiefer of cinema”.

His second feature film, The Sea Behind Her Headfunded by the British Film Institute (BFI) and Doc Society, is currently in production, along with several new short films and multimedia works. 




For screening inquiries, commissions, collaborations, lecturing and mentorship, or any other inquiries, please contact Scott Barley ︎

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Events



Screening
Hinterlands
Scott Barley, 2016
&
Demons
Toshio Matsumoto, 1971

New Circle of Cinema
Toronto, Canada
24th October, 2024


Screening
Hunter 
Scott Barley, 2015
&
Hinterlands
Scott Barley, 2016

Followed by Q&A

Film Underground
New York, USA
29th October, 2024



Visiting Lecturer
Scott Barley

Screening
Sleep Has Her House  

The American University of Paris
France  
November 2024





News




Scott Barley is awarded funding by Creative Scotland for a series of projects bridging digital cinema with physical artworks.


A comprehensive new interview with Scott Barley, conducted by Rushnan Jaleel for Chute Film Co-op is available to read online. 


Scott Barley is currently working with Palestinian-British filmmaker, Saeed Taji Farouky (A Thousand Fires, Winner of Marco Zucchi Award, Locarno 2021) as a cinematographer and artist on his upcoming feature film.

Scott Barley joins the Sound / Image Cinema Lab, Falmouth University as part of Innovate UK £1.04m funded R&D project.

In his role he will work with a consortium including Channel 4 and Aardman on ethics-first approaches to emerging technologies.



In a production consultant role, Scott Barley works with Academy Award nominee Ildikó Enyedi (On Body and Soul, Golden Bear winner, 2017) for her  upcoming tenth feature film, Silent Friend (starring Léa Seydoux and Tony Leung Chiu-wai).

Scott Barley’s second feature film, The Sea Behind Her Head receives funding from the British Film Institute (BFI) and Doc Society.

The film is currently in production, along with several new short films and multimedia works.


Contact ︎

Available for commissions, lectures, masterclasses,
private tutoring and consultation services worldwide.

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