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The Green Ray

(2017)

Synopsis
A Green Ray that never features. Instead, we sense it – seeing beyond our own eyes, beyond the hills – we sense it for an instant. We are plunged into the unknowable, beyond the horizon, beyond seeing altogether.

In a single 11 minute take, the film takes us from lush sunsets. to beyond the green ray, and into the gloaming, into the heavy night's darkness, where we await the impending storm.

Originally featured in Sleep Has Her House, released as a standalone single-take film.


Technical Information
12 minutes
4:3 aspect ratio
2K resolution
5.1 surround sound

Shot on iPhone 6 Plus
Edited with Final Cut Pro X

Digitally remastered in 2020


Stream
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In Production
Within Without Horizon
The Flesh
The Sea Behind Her Head

2020
To the Moon

2019
Wind

2017
Eviscerations
Womb
Midnight
Passing
Starless / Mouths in the Grass / Lustre to Void The Green Ray
Sleep Has Her House
Fugue
Painting (I)

2016
Hinterlands
Closer

2015
Blue Permanence/Swan Blood
Hunter
To Young to Die
The Sadness of the Trees
Death is a Photograph
Shadows
Evenfall
Hours

2014
Polytechnique
Ille Lacrimas

2013
Nightwalk
Irresolute
Retirement
GLASS | TRUTH

2012 The Ethereal Melancholy of Seeing Horses in the Cold
Untitled
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 To the Moon (2020), Scott Barley, Tadhg O'Sullivan Wind (2019), Directed by Scott Barley Eviscerations (2017), Directed by Scott Barley Womb (2017), Directed by Scott Barley Midnight (2017), Directed by Scott Barley – unreleased Passing (2013–2017), Directed by Scott Barley Mouths in the Grass (2016–2017), Directed by Scott Barley – unreleased The Green Ray (2017), Directed by Scott Barley Sleep Has Her House (2017), Directed by Scott Barley Fugue (2017), Scott Barley – unreleased Painting (I) (2016), Directed by Scott Barley – unreleased 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 Too Young to Die (2014–2015), Scott Barley – unreleased The Sadness of the Trees (2015), Directed by Scott Barley, Mikel Guillen Death is a Photograph (2013–2015), Directed by Scott Barley – unreleased 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


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