Description
Russian premiere
Secret ladder. Borne from firmament. Stone, atonal waters. Chorus of silent hands. A vanishing act. Night is burning. Night is burning white. Flesh, a white fire. Avian. Given. Secret ladder. Mirror, become mirror.
18.10.2025 at 17:30 Sky Cinema. Scott Barley: Selected Films, Levashovsky Bread Factory
Time and place
Saturday,
18 October 2025 at 17:30
Levashovsky Bread Factory Cultural Centre:
Санкт-Петербург, Барочная улица, дом 4а, строение 1
Description
A retrospective programme dedicated to Scott Barley, one of today’s leading experimental filmmakers. His creative method is defined by radical independence and self-imposed limitations. Since 2015, he has worked almost entirely alone, shooting primarily on an iPhone and handling the camera, editing, sound, and production himself. Barley begins each film without a script, collecting fragments of light, movement, natural phenomena, sounds, and details of the surrounding world—recorded over different days, in different places. These fragments, sometimes gathered months or even years apart, are then woven into a single visual and sonic fabric. In his meditative works, the director minimizes the use of technology and resources, engaging deliberately with space and time, aiming not merely to show but to let the viewer experience the world in flux. The programme presents two of his short films alongside his signature feature, Sleep Has Her House.
SLEEP HAS HER HOUSE
2023 – restored version, 90 min., col., experimental, full-length
A LADDER
2025, 9 мин., b/w, short-length, feature
HALF MOON
2020, 4 min., col., short-length, feature
A Ladder
Sleep Has Her House
Description
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 the forest. They cry out into the black, as the shadows pass away, into the ground.
Half Moon
Description
Russian premiere
A dance between moon and ocean, forests and rivers.
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