Scott Barley Filmes
- 2026

Silent Friend
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On the grounds of a medieval German university town looms an imposing Ginkgo biloba, a tree whose longevity stands in marked contrast to three...
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- 2019

Wind
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A commissioned music video for Emmit Fenn’s instrumental track, Wind.
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- 2013

Irresolute
Irresolute6.72013HD
The tension between the natural and industrialised world depicted through abrasive superimpositions.
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- 2020

Half Moon
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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 A short film by Scott Barley, originally made for a "half moon phase" sequence for Tadhg...
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- 2016

Hinterlands
Hinterlands7.42016HD
Through a structuralist and simultaneously ambiguous form, the image's reality treads closer to the abstract, leaving the sunset and trees behind. As...
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- 2016

Closer
Closer6.92016HD
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...
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- 2015

Evenfall
Evenfall6.92015HD
A silent poem to celebrate the winter light and the sense of solitude that it brings.
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- 2015

Hours
Hours6.22015HD
Darkness has crept in. The hours pass quietly. A window ajar. A shadow observes the moonlight from the window.
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- 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...
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- 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...
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- 2014

Polytechnique
Polytechnique7.92014HD
An audio-visual collaboration between Italian ambient/drone musician, Easychord and UK filmmaker, Scott Barley. Guided by Easychord's haunting,...
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- 2017

Sleep Has Her House
Sleep Has Her House6.72017HD
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...
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- 2020

To the Moon
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This is a beautiful and poetic cinematic ode to our moon. Made primarily from international cinematic archives in combination with literary fragments...
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- 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...
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- 2025

A Ladder
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Secret ladder. Borne from firmament. Stone, atonal waters. Chorus of silent hands. A vanishing act. Night is burning. Night is burning white. ...
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- 1970

Standing at the Ruins
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Hala, an Opera singer living in Rome, comes back to Cairo to claim her mother’s inheritance. This takes her on a journey across Cairo, meeting...
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- 1970

The Sea Behind Her Head
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The second feature-length film directed by Scott Barley.
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- 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...
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- 2025

The Occupant of the Room
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Based on the short ghost story of the same name by Algernon Blackwood from 1909, The Occupant of the Room centers on a schoolteacher whose late-night...
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- 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. Mikel Guillen's film is dedicated to the artist, Hiroshi Sugimoto....
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