Scott Barley
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Scott Barley | |
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| Born | Cardiff, Wales |
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| Known for | Cinema |
| Notable work | Sleep Has Her House Hinterlands |
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| Website | scottbarley |
Scott Barley (born 11 November 1992) is a Welsh filmmaker, artist, drone musician, and writer.[1][2][3]
His films have been associated with experimental cinema, remodernist film, slow cinema, and ecocriticism. Often difficult to categorise, the same films have been described as fiction, documentary, docu-fiction, cosmic horror, and ambient cinema.[4][5][6]
Common traits in his films include painterly compositions of elemental landscapes and wild animals, nightfall, spectral imagery, the majesty, horror and chaos of nature, the absence of people, the unknown, static or near static long takes interspersed with much shorter takes with frenetic camera movement, repetition, a focus on mood and atmosphere over plot, superimpositions, defocus aberration and extreme use of underexposure.[1][5][7]
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.
Influences and style
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.[8][9][10]
His approach to filmmaking has been compared to David Lynch, Stan Brakhage, Philippe Grandrieux, Béla Tarr, Andrei Tarkovsky, Alexander Sokurov, Maya Deren and Jean Epstein.[11][12][13][14]
Barley's approach to filmmaking is similar to that of some other solo 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.[15][16] The sequences in his films are often composed of many layers of iPhone footage, shot in various locations over a long period. During a lengthy post-production, various footage, drawings and paintings are layered and combined into a single shot, in a similar process to collage. Unlike collage however, the various footage is combined to appear as if the final result is only a single piece of footage.[17]
"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. [I] then invisibly stitch [the different shots] 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." — Scott Barley
Filmography
| Title | Running time | Year |
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| The Sea Behind Her Head (in production) | TBC | TBC |
| Within Without Horizon (in production) | TBC | TBC |
| Eviscerations | 12 min | 2017 |
| Womb | 17 min | 2017 |
| Passing | 2 min | 2017 |
| Fugue | - | unreleased |
| The Green Ray | 12 min | 2017 |
| Sleep Has Her House | 90 min | 2017 |
| Painting (I) | 360 min | unreleased |
| Hinterlands | 7 min | 2016 |
| Closer | 7 min | 2016 |
| Blue Permanence / Swan Blood | 6 min | 2015 |
| Hunter | 14 min | 2015 |
| The Sadness of the Trees | 12 min | 2015 |
| Shadows | 20 min | 2015 |
| Evenfall | 6 min | 2015 |
| Death Is a Photograph | - | unreleased |
| Hours | 3 min | 2015 |
| Ille Lacrimas | 20 min | 2014 |
| Polytechnique | 12 min | 2014 |
| Nightwalk | 6 min | 2013 |
| Irresolute | 2 min | 2013 |
| Retirement | 3 min | 2013 |
| GLASS / TRUTH | 4 min | 2013 |
| The Ethereal Melancholy of Seeing Horses in the Cold | 4 min | 2012 |
| Untitled (installation with video) | 3 min | 2012 |
Music
| Title | Format | Year |
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| Awaiting Body | Album | 2021 |
| To the Lighthouse | Single | 2017 |
| Sleep Has Her House (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) | Soundtrack | 2017, 2021 |
References
- ^ a b "MUBI Notebook/The Wind that Shakes the Barley: Scott Barley's "Sleep Has Her House"". MUBI. James Slaymaker. Retrieved 28 March 2017.
- ^ "Scott Barley". scottbarley.com. Retrieved 17 November 2021.[self-published source]
- ^ "Scott Barley discography - RYM/Sonemic". Rate Your Music. Retrieved 15 November 2021.
- ^ "Sleep Has Her House: experimental ecocinema in context". alumni.online.unimelb.edu.au. Retrieved 15 November 2021.
- ^ a b 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.
- ^ "Sleep Has Her House". Queensland Film Festival. Retrieved 30 October 2022.
- ^ "Visualização de O escuro tem sua casa: O retorno à sala de exibição como resposta as novas tecnologias de imersão. | AVANCA | CINEMA". publication.avanca.org. Retrieved 30 October 2022.
- ^ "Onscreen/Offscreen: The "terrible sublime" of Sleep Has Her House". The Georgia Straight. 22 September 2017. Retrieved 15 November 2021.
- ^ "Filmkommentaren - Scott Barley: Sleep Has Her House". www.filmkommentaren.dk. Retrieved 15 November 2021.
- ^ 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.
- ^ "Cliacom". Climacom Film Journal. Universidade Estadual de Campinas. Retrieved 27 March 2017.
- ^ "Lo Specchio Scuro/Scott Barley" [The Dark Mirror / Scott Barley]. Lo Specchio Scuro Film Journal. Lorenzo Baldassari. 30 May 2015. Retrieved 27 March 2017.
- ^ "Onscreen/Offscreen: The "terrible sublime" of Sleep Has Her House". Georgia Straight Vancouver's News & Entertainment Weekly. 22 September 2017. Retrieved 30 July 2018.
- ^ "Sheffield Doc/Fest: Sheffield International Documentary Festival". www.sheffdocfest.com. Retrieved 3 January 2020.
- ^ Chang, Dustin (15 June 2017). "Interview: Scott Barley on Sleep Has Her House". www.dustinchang.com. Retrieved 15 June 2017.
- ^ "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.
- ^ Fawcett, Daniel (Summer 2017). "Interview with Scott Barley" (PDF). Film Panic. 4: 40–41. Archived from the original (PDF) on 16 August 2017.
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