The Green Ray
2017
Scott Barley
︎ 12 ︎1.33:1 ︎2K
︎ iPhone 6+
︎ 5.1
︎ Final Cut Pro
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, here released as a standalone, single-take film.
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Producer / Writer / Director / Camera / Image / Sound / Editor
Scott Barley
︎ 12 ︎1.33:1 ︎2K
︎ iPhone 6+
︎ 5.1
︎ Final Cut Pro
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, here released as a standalone, single-take film.
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Filmography
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Completed
2025
2020
2017
2016
2015
2014
2013
2012
Unreleased
In Production
- Within Without Horizon
- The Flesh
- The Sea Behind Her Head
Completed
2025
2020
2017
2016
2015
2014
2013
2012
Unreleased
Work with other filmmakers & artists
Completed
Unreleased
Completed
- Silent Friend
Ildikó Enyedi, 2025
production consultant
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The Occupant of the Room
Kier-La Janisse, 2025
colourist & visual artist
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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
directior, cinematographer, editor - The Sadness of the Trees 2015
- collaboration with Mikel Guillen
Unreleased
- ‘The Speed of Dark’
collaboration with Phil Solomon