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Scott Barley (born 11 November 1992) is a Welsh filmmaker, artist, drone musician, and writer.

His films have been associated with the Remodernist and Slow cinema movements, and ecocriticism. Recurrent themes in his work are the anthropocene, nature, darkness, absence, cosmology, phenomenology, mereology and mysticism.

His filmmaking methods have been compared to David Lynch, Stan Brakhage, Philippe Grandrieux, Béla Tarr, Alexander Sokurov, Maya Deren and Jean Epstein.

Since early 2015, Barley has almost exclusively shot his films on iPhone. He is most well-known for the 2017 experimental film, Sleep Has Her House. Danish film critic, and former director of the European Documentary Network, Tue Steen Müller has described him as the "Anselm Kiefer of cinema".

Influences and style

Barley has cited Béla Tarr, Robert Bresson, Michelangelo Antonioni, Pedro Costa, Phil Solomon, Jean-Claude Rousseau, and Nathaniel Dorsky among his favourite filmmakers.

Barley's imagery and focus on natural landscape has been likened to the romantic tradition of The Sublime within a modernist and digital context. Critics and academics have drawn parallels with Sleep Has Her House and the work of Caspar David Friedrich, J. M. W. Turner, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Wagner's Götterdämmerung and the ideas of Immanuel Kant, among others.

Barley's approach to filmmaking is similar to that of other solo and poetic avant-garde filmmakers, Stan Brakhage, Jonas Mekas, Nathaniel Dorsky and Peter Hutton, but the post-production process is unique to both mainstream and avant-garde filmmaking practices.

"I always begin a film almost like one would keep a diary. I have no idea, or agenda to make a film. I simply document. I shoot what attracts me, random things, animals, variances in light, the water, the stars; simply what draws me in on different days, different nights, in different places. Once I have built up a body of footage, I start to see connections. These pieces of footage could be taken months or even years apart – and miles apart too. then invisibly stitch together into one larger shot or sequence. But these connections between different pieces of footage all happen organically. I never force these connections. I never force a film when it doesn’t come. The films find me – not the other way round All my films have been made this way. Some happen quicker than others. Once these connections are established, a narrative - through images - begins to germinate."

Filmography

Music

References

1. "MUBI Notebook/The Wind that Shakes the Barley: Scott Barley's "Sleep Has Her House"". MUBI. James Slaymaker. Retrieved 28 March 2017.
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4. "Sleep Has Her House: experimental ecocinema in context". alumni.online.unimelb.edu.au. Retrieved 15 November 2021.
5. Buchanan, Jack (31 October 2021). "The Affective Database: 'Symulation' and Enacting Worldhood in the Film-worlds of Scott Barley". Networking Knowledge: Journal of the MeCCSA Postgraduate Network. 14 (2): 147–159. doi:10.31165/nk.2021.142.645. ISSN 1755-9944. S2CID 243474156.
6. "Le Cinéma Remoderniste Histoire et Théorie d'une Esthétique Contemporaine". Google Docs. Florian Maricourt, Nicole Brenez. Retrieved 27 March 2017.
7. "Scott Barley / Creating in the Digital Era". 25fps. Milan Kroulík. 24 March 2017. Retrieved 25 March 2017.
8. "Sleep Has Her House". Lo Specchio Scuro. Lorenzo Baldassari. 13 February 2017. Retrieved 28 March 2017.
9. "Cliacom". Climacom Film Journal. Universidade Estadual de Campinas. Retrieved 27 March 2017.
10. "Lo Specchio Scuro/Scott Barley" [The Dark Mirror / Scott Barley]. Lo Specchio Scuro Film Journal. Lorenzo Baldassari. 30 May 2015. Retrieved 27 March 2017.
11. "Onscreen/Offscreen: The "terrible sublime" of Sleep Has Her House". Georgia Straight Vancouver's News & Entertainment Weekly. 22 September 2017. Retrieved 30 July 2018.
12. "Sheffield Doc/Fest: Sheffield International Documentary Festival". www.sheffdocfest.com. Retrieved 3 January 2020.
13. s.r.o, Appio Digital. "EDN - European Documentary Network | DOKweb". dokweb.net. Retrieved 15 November 2021.
14. ^ "Filmkommentaren - Scott Barley: Sleep Has Her House". www.filmkommentaren.dk. Retrieved 15 November 2021.
15. s.r.o, Appio Digital. "Tue Steen Müller | DOKweb". dokweb.net. Retrieved 15 November 2021.
16. Chang, Dustin. "Scott Barley Interview". Retrieved 25 October 2024.
17. "Onscreen/Offscreen: The "terrible sublime" of Sleep Has Her House". The Georgia Straight. 22 September 2017. Retrieved 15 November 2021.
18. Buchanan, Jack (31 October 2021). "The Affective Database: 'Symulation' and Enacting Worldhood in the Film-worlds of Scott Barley". Networking Knowledge: Journal of the MeCCSA Postgraduate Network. 14 (2): 147–159. doi:10.31165/nk.2021.142.645. ISSN 1755-9944. S2CID 243474156.
19. Chang, Dustin (15 June 2017). "Interview: Scott Barley on Sleep Has Her House". www.dustinchang.com. Retrieved 15 June 2017.
20. "Vol. 14 No. 2 (2021): Climate, Creatures and COVID-19: Environment and Animals in Twenty-First Century Media Discourse". Networking Knowledge: Journal of the MeCCSA Postgraduate Network.

External links

• Scott Barley at IMDb
• Official website

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• Living people
• British experimental filmmakers
• 1992 births