Workshop with Scott Barley

OVNI archives invites the Filmmaker with a double activity: a two day workshop and a film screening of his award-winning full-length motion picture Sleep Has Her House (2017).

Scott Barley is a British filmmaker and artist. His work has been associated with the Remodernist and Slow Cinema movements. Since 2015, Barley has almost exclusively shot his films on an iPhone. His films are primarily concerned with the anthropocene, nature, darkness, cosmology, phenomenology and mysticism.

In this workshop, Barley introduce us to his work and goes through his fundamental influences. The filmmaker reflects on his particular way of working as we enter into the night and darkness as the basis of vision.

Free Workshop with pre-registration

https://scottbarleyfilm.com

https://scottbarleyfilm.com

https://www.cccb.org/ca/activitats/fitxa/ovni-2019-al-voltant-de-la-foscor/232010

https://www.cccb.org/ca/activitats/fitxa/ovni-2019-al-voltant-de-la-foscor/232010

Part three of a cycle of digital video works I'm beginning to call -after Bataille- "Theory of religion, theory of ecstasy." The other two parts are Mirror and The Zapruder Footage. This tape is inspired by the 11th century Sufi mystical text The Conference of the Birds. It is a text which explores transparency and opacity, multiplicity and unity, narrative and insight, the mundane and the ecstatic. I include a postscript from the text which I included at the end of the tape, and perhaps best responds to the attempt to phrase it: "Seek the trunk of the tree and do not worry whether the branches do or do not exist."

Dream stories. Dreams as a passage into parallel worlds, erasing the limits between the real and the unreal, between life and death.

(...) We are leaving the Earth bit by bit leaving behind our service to humankind and life in general motors and satellite waves are wounds in our hearts and brains through which love escapes