Scott Barley Movies
- 2015

The Sadness of the Trees
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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

The Sea Behind Her Head
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The second feature-length film directed by Scott Barley.
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- 1970

Within Without Horizon
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Experimental short film by Scott Barley
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- 1970

The Emerald Fire
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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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- 2014

Ille Lacrimas
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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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- 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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- 2017

The Green Ray
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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...
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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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- 2017

Painting (I)
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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...
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- 2013

Retirement
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"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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