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

A film about a community that lives in a cemetery in Manila. Rural poverty combined with a terribly overcrowded capital explain why many thousands of families have taken to squatting in the city's cemeteries. Overcrowding has forced the community to build their tarpaulin and bamboo houses among the tombs and also out into the sea. The residents have not only made the cemetery their home but in many cases their place of work. This film reveals their problems, jobs, sense of community and hopes for the future.

One of the tapes of Anne Charlotte Robertson’s five-year-old diary, a cathartic, devastating, delicate and meditative story. The extraordinarily frank and revealing self-portrait of an artist and a woman struggling to understand the dark desires and shadows that define her world.

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."

A film based on the Neapolitan cult of dead. It is said that these dead people call out in dreams, and sometimes appear in a crowd: the stranger who is staring at you. They want to be acknowledged. So you adopt a skull, one of the thousands of human remains that can be found below the city. This ancient cult that has been practised until recently has left traces, traditions and beliefs.

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