- dir. Scott Barley
- year. 2017
- country. UK
- run-time. 90 mins
- rating. PG
£6.00 (£4.50 conc.)
Doors 18:00 - Film 18:30
SLEEP HAS HER HOUSE
If a tree falls? Lightning illuminates a pine forest, horses wait in the darkness, an owl watches. Shapes shift in a woodland clearing, lit by the bluish hue of the moon. This could be an X-Files crime scene, or the forest that lives while Twin Peaks sleeps. Painterly visions of fantastic beauty capture a disorientating sense of the unreal.
With a few brushstrokes SLEEP HAS HER HOUSE transports you to a place both familiar and strange. You may remember it from childhood, or a nightmare - perhaps this memory belongs to someone who lived many, many years ago.
We cannot overstate how uniquely stirring this film is. Come sit in the dark with us.
SLEEP HAS HER HOUSE
Directed by Scott Barley, 2017
(This is the trailer. Full film is 90 minutes.)
Screening at Sheffield Doc/Fest on Monday 11th June at 12.30PM, at The Light Cinema 8 in the Doc/Visions category. You can purchase tickets here: https://sheffdocfest.com/films/6414
"The forest that lives while Twin Peaks sleeps. Painterly visions of fantastic beauty capture a disorientating sense of the unreal. A hypnotic reverie in a dark forest, underneath waterfalls and shifting shapes in the night. Captured on an iPhone, this is a symphonic and haunting science fiction of nature." – Sheffield Doc/Fest
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.
Through long, mostly static takes, the film develops a contemplative, slumberously hypnotic experience, akin to paintings that move. A film that superimposes live action and still photography (shot on iPhone) and hand-drawn images.
Find more information here: https://www.scottbarleyfilm.com/Sleep-Has-Her-House
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“The single most momentous hour and a half in the dark for me this year, a tenebrous landscape film shapeshifting between reality and nightmare, cinema and dream.”
“Watching Sleep Has Her House, I realised how very long it had been since a new film both filled me with absolute wonder and satisfied my deepest craving for cinema itself.”