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Born November 11, 1992 · Cardiff, Wales, UK
Born in 1992 in Cardiff, Wales, he is a filmmaker, artist, and film theorist whose work lies at the intersection of slow cinema, visual poetry, and sound. He studied film and experimental art at the University of Wales and Cardiff Metropolitan University. His films explore darkness, nature, the Anthropocene, and the phenomenology of perception. His 2017 feature debut Sleep Has Her House received the Best Film award at the Fronteira International Documentary & Experimental Film Festival in Brazil. Barley’s films have been screened at festivals and museums worldwide, creating a distinctive space between cinema, meditation, and lyrical essay.

A Ladder
2025

Half Moon
2020

Wind
2019

Womb
2017
Painting (I)
2017

Passing
2017

The Green Ray
2017

Sleep Has Her House
2017

Hinterlands
2016

Closer
2016

Blue Permanence / Swan Blood
2015

Hunter
2015

The Sadness of the Trees
2015

Shadows
2015

Evenfall
2015

Hours
2015

Ille Lacrimas
2014

Polytechnique
2014

Nightwalk
2013

Retirement
2013

Irresolute
2013

The Ethereal Melancholy of Seeing Horses in the Cold
2012

The Sea Behind Her Head

The Emerald Fire

The Flesh

Within Without Horizon