Scott Barley

{{Short description|Welsh film director, artist, musician, writer}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=October 2022}}

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| notable_works = Sleep Has Her House Hinterlands

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Scott Barley (born 11 November 1992) is a Welsh filmmaker, artist, drone musician, and writer.{{cite web |title=MUBI Notebook/The Wind that Shakes the Barley: Scott Barley's "Sleep Has Her House" |url=https://mubi.com/notebook/posts/the-wind-that-shakes-the-barley-scott-barley-s-sleep-has-her-house/ |website=MUBI |publisher=James Slaymaker |accessdate=28 March 2017}}{{Cite web |title=Scott Barley |url=https://scottbarley.com/ |access-date=17 November 2021 |website=scottbarley.com |language=en}}{{Self-published source|date=October 2022|ABOUTSELF=y}}{{Cite web |title=Scott Barley discography - RYM/Sonemic |url=https://rateyourmusic.com/artist/scott-barley |access-date=15 November 2021 |website=Rate Your Music |language=en}}

His work often focuses on creating mood and sensory experiences rather than following traditional narrative structures. His films have been associated with the remodernist and slow cinema movements, and ecocriticism.{{Cite web |title=Sleep Has Her House: experimental ecocinema in context |url=https://alumni.online.unimelb.edu.au/s/1182/match/wide.aspx?sid=1182&gid=1&pgid=20654&cid=29343&ecid=29343&crid=0&calpgid=732&calcid=1410 |access-date=15 November 2021 |website=alumni.online.unimelb.edu.au |language=en}}{{Cite journal |last=Buchanan |first=Jack |date=31 October 2021 |title=The Affective Database: 'Symulation' and Enacting Worldhood in the Film-worlds of Scott Barley |url=https://www.ojs.meccsa.org.uk/index.php/netknow/article/view/645 |journal=Networking Knowledge: Journal of the MeCCSA Postgraduate Network |language=en |volume=14 |issue=2 |pages=147–159 |doi=10.31165/nk.2021.142.645 |s2cid=243474156 |issn=1755-9944|doi-access=free }} Recurrent themes in his work are the anthropocene, nature, darkness, absence, cosmology, phenomenology, mereology and mysticism.{{cite web |title=Le Cinéma Remoderniste Histoire et Théorie d'une Esthétique Contemporaine |url=https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B0MqTDaoArJ7QkZHdWg3Wno4d2lLb015WUlCdWMwV1ZTdjUw |website=Google Docs |publisher=Florian Maricourt, Nicole Brenez |access-date=27 March 2017}}{{cite web |title=Scott Barley / Creating in the Digital Era |url=http://25fps.cz/2017/scott-barley-interview/ |website=25fps |date=24 March 2017 |publisher=Milan Kroulík |access-date=25 March 2017}}{{cite web |title=Sleep Has Her House |url=http://specchioscuro.it/sleep-has-her-house/ |website=Lo Specchio Scuro |date=13 February 2017 |publisher=Lorenzo Baldassari |access-date=28 March 2017}}

His filmmaking methods have been compared to David Lynch, Stan Brakhage, Philippe Grandrieux, Béla Tarr, Alexander Sokurov, Maya Deren and Jean Epstein.{{cite web |title=Cliacom |url=http://climacom.mudancasclimaticas.net.br/?p=6260 |website=Climacom Film Journal |publisher=Universidade Estadual de Campinas |access-date=27 March 2017}}{{cite web |title=Lo Specchio Scuro/Scott Barley |trans-title=The Dark Mirror / Scott Barley |url=https://specchioscuro.it/scott-barley/#english |website=Lo Specchio Scuro Film Journal |date=30 May 2015 |publisher=Lorenzo Baldassari |access-date=27 March 2017}}{{Cite news |url=https://www.straight.com/movies/971126/onscreenoffscreen-terrible-sublime-sleep-has-her-house |title=Onscreen/Offscreen: The "terrible sublime" of Sleep Has Her House |date=22 September 2017 |work=Georgia Straight Vancouver's News & Entertainment Weekly |access-date=30 July 2018 |language=en}}{{Cite web |url=https://www.sheffdocfest.com/films/6414 |title=Sheffield Doc/Fest: Sheffield International Documentary Festival |website=www.sheffdocfest.com |access-date=3 January 2020}}

Since early 2015, Barley has almost exclusively shot his films on iPhone. He is most well-known for the 2017 experimental film, Sleep Has Her House. Danish film critic, and former director of the European Documentary Network, Tue Steen Müller has described him as the "Anselm Kiefer of cinema".{{Cite web |last=s.r.o |first=Appio Digital |title=EDN - European Documentary Network {{!}} DOKweb|url=https://dokweb.net/database/organizations/about/20fda693-32db-4941-9630-ce361d80660d/edn-european-documentary-network |access-date=15 November 2021|website=dokweb.net|language=en}}{{Cite web |title=Filmkommentaren - Scott Barley: Sleep Has Her House |url=http://www.filmkommentaren.dk/blog/blogpost/4276/ |access-date=15 November 2021 |website=www.filmkommentaren.dk}}{{Cite web |last=s.r.o |first=Appio Digital |title=Tue Steen Müller {{!}} DOKweb|url=https://dokweb.net/database/persons/biography/d404e1bb-9500-45d3-9c9a-c414651ecab7/tue-steen-muller |access-date=15 November 2021|website=dokweb.net|language=en}}