Scott Barley

Scott Barley (born 11 November 1992) is a Welsh filmmaker, artist, drone musician, and writer. 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. Recurrent themes in his work are the anthropocene, nature, darkness, absence, cosmology, phenomenology, mereology and mysticism. His filmmaking methods have been compared to David Lynch, Stan Brakhage, Philippe Grandrieux, Béla Tarr, Alexander Sokurov, Maya Deren and Jean Epstein. Since early 2015, Barley has almost exclusively shot his films on iPhone, working primarily alone. While his filmmaking is largely solitary, he has also contributed to the work of other filmmakers, most notably Ildikó Enyedi’s 2025 film, Silent Friend. 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".