Scott Barley Movies
- 2026

Silent Friend
Silent Friend02026HD
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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- 2015

Shadows
Shadows8.12015HD
Through a series of chiaroscuro vignettes, the deterioration of an elderly woman's life is observed.
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- 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...
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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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- 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

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...
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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 A short film by Scott Barley, originally made for a "half moon phase" sequence for Tadhg...
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- 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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- 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.
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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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- 2017

Womb
Womb6.62017HD
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...
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- 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...
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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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- 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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- 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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- 1970

Standing at the Ruins
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- 2013

Irresolute
Irresolute6.72013HD
The tension between the natural and industrialised world depicted through abrasive superimpositions.
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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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- 1970

The Emerald Fire
The Emerald Fire01970HD
Scott Barley and Mikel Guillen’s second collaboration, The Emerald Fire is inspired by the eleven Hijabaat (veils) of Sufism, feminine...
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- 2017

Sleep Has Her House
Sleep Has Her House6.6832017HD
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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