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Scott Barley

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Edinburgh College of Art

Education

  • Artist-filmmaker background, self-taught in independent filmmaking practices.

Professional Experience / Research

  • Teaching Fellow in Film Directing, Edinburgh College of Art.

  • Filmography: focuses on sensorial and contemplative cinema, challenging anthropocentric narratives.

  • Themes: nature, darkness, visible absence, cosmology, phenomenology, mysticism.

  • Practice: radically independent, using iPhone, painting, drawing; self-produces all aspects of filmmaking.

  • Work exhibited in 50+ countries worldwide (Europe, North America, South America, Asia, Australia).

  • Venues include: ICA London, Jeu de Paume Paris, Venice Biennale, Doclisboa, Karlovy Vary IFF, QAGOMA, MoMA Río, Korean Film Archive, MoCA Busan.

Collaborations

  • A Ladder (2025), short film collaboration with musician Hara Alonso, commissioned by Canal180, Culturgest, and Gnration (Portugal).

Screenings & Retrospectives

  • Premiered as part of a David Lynch retrospective (Freiburg, 2025), screened alongside Eraserhead.

Conferences / Academic Analysis

  • His work has been subject of research at University of Melbourne, Goldsmiths University of London, Université Sorbonne Nouvelle Paris, University of Porto.