Scott Barley Movies

  • 2017
    Painting (I)

    Painting (I)

    Painting (I)

    02017HD

    A thirty second tracking shot, moving toward, beneath, and away from a large tree at night is abstracted by slowing the original footage down to 360...

    Painting (I)
  • 2012
    The Ethereal Melancholy of Seeing Horses in the Cold

    The Ethereal Melancholy of Seeing Horses in the Cold

    The Ethereal Melancholy of Seeing Horses in the Cold

    7.52012HD

    A silent short, focusing on the beauty and melancholia of seeing horses in the cold fog, and the metaphors that manifest, as time passes.

    The Ethereal Melancholy of Seeing Horses in the Cold
  • 2013
    Retirement

    Retirement

    Retirement

    7.52013HD

    "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...

    Retirement
  • 2017
    Passing

    Passing

    Passing

    6.52017HD

    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...

    Passing
  • 2015
    Shadows

    Shadows

    Shadows

    8.12015HD

    Through a series of chiaroscuro vignettes, the deterioration of an elderly woman's life is observed.

    Shadows
  • 2015
    Hours

    Hours

    Hours

    6.22015HD

    Darkness has crept in. The hours pass quietly. A window ajar. A shadow observes the moonlight from the window.

    Hours
  • 1970
    The Flesh

    The Flesh

    The Flesh

    01970HD

    Experimental short film by Scott Barley

    The Flesh
  • 1970
    The Emerald Fire

    The Emerald Fire

    The Emerald Fire

    01970HD

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

    The Emerald Fire
  • 2017
    The Green Ray

    The Green Ray

    The Green Ray

    7.62017HD

    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...

    The Green Ray
  • 2015
    The Sadness of the Trees

    The Sadness of the Trees

    The Sadness of the Trees

    6.22015HD

    Two separate, yet poetically connected films that act as a threnody on nature. Mikel Guillen's film is dedicated to the artist, Hiroshi Sugimoto....

    The Sadness of the Trees