Scott Barley Movies
- 2017
Sleep Has Her House
Sleep Has Her House6.62017HD
The shadows of screams climb beyond the hills. It has happened before. But this will be the last time. The last few sense it, withdrawing deep into...
- 2020
To the Moon
To the Moon72020HD
This is a beautiful and poetic cinematic ode to our moon. Made primarily from international cinematic archives in combination with literary fragments...
- 2013
Retirement
Retirement7.52013HD
"Retirement. My retirement. After a long stretch of intense work on a project that I wasn't passionate about, I finally had a little time to make...
- 2017
Passing
Passing6.52017HD
A Silence. Two deer. Mother and child. Curiosity and the World. Being and responding. Love and courage. A gesture. Alone in the woods inside an...
- 2015
Hunter
Hunter7.62015HD
It is nightfall. A hunter lurks in the darkness, wandering further towards the impenetrable. Do the meanings lie in the stream, in the mountains, the...
- 2015
Shadows
Shadows8.12015HD
Through a series of hauntingly beautiful, chiaroscuro vignettes, the poignant deterioration of an elderly woman's life is observed.
- 2017
Womb
Womb6.72017HD
The Mouth screams. It swells, hunting the night like a snake in the dark. The laceration tears through the stars, devouring its meal. In an infinite...
- 2012
The Ethereal Melancholy of Seeing Horses in the Cold
The Ethereal Melancholy of Seeing Horses in the Cold7.52012HD
A silent short, focusing on the beauty and melancholia of seeing horses in the cold fog, and the metaphors that manifest, as time passes.
- 2013
Irresolute
Irresolute6.72013HD
The tension between the natural and industrialised world depicted through abrasive superimpositions.
- 2015
Hours
Hours6.22015HD
Darkness has crept in. The hours pass quietly. A window ajar. A shadow observes the moonlight from the window.
- 2016
Closer
Closer72016HD
Upon liminal spheres where dreams are woven, Adrift between stars and the trees, I pass closer to the golden dawn. There’s a warmth beyond...
- 2015
Evenfall
Evenfall6.92015HD
A silent poem to celebrate the winter light and the sense of solitude that it brings.
- 2017
The Green Ray
The Green Ray7.62017HD
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...
- 2015
The Sadness of the Trees
The Sadness of the Trees6.22015HD
Two separate, yet poetically connected films that act as a threnody on nature; with the trees as silent observers to Man's insidious desolation....
- 2014
Ille Lacrimas
Ille Lacrimas7.82014HD
Waves run across the surface of the sea. A blanket of fog has descended, shrouding the far side of the water in dark mist. We hear a disturbance in...
- 2014
Polytechnique
Polytechnique7.92014HD
An audio-visual collaboration between Italian ambient/drone musician, Easychord and UK filmmaker, Scott Barley. Guided by Easychord's haunting,...
- 2016
Hinterlands
Hinterlands7.22016HD
Through a structuralist and simultaneously ambiguous form, the image's reality treads closer to the abstract, leaving the sunset and trees behind. As...
- 2013
Nightwalk
Nightwalk6.62013HD
Several figures move through the darkness on a cliff-edge. An inaudible conversation near the brow of the cliff may be the cause for the group to...
- 2015
Blue Permanence / Swan Blood
Blue Permanence / Swan Blood6.72015HD
Above all, an experiment. Two identical films mirror each other. The only thing that differentiates between them is colour and sound, which is simply...
- 2020
Half Moon
Half Moon02020HD
A dance between moon and ocean, forests and rivers. A short film by Scott Barley, originally made for a "half moon phase" sequence for Tadhg...