Event Sleep Has Her House

Sleep Has Her House

QFF screening

8 August 2019
6.30–8.30pm

Sink into atmospheric scenes of a dark forest in British filmmaker Scott Barley’s feature Sleep Has Her House (2017). Shot entirely on iPhone, it presents mysterious, painterly images of nature with creeping supernatural undertones. Film critic Tom Charity described it as, ‘The single most momentous hour and a half in the dark this year, a tenebrous landscape film shapeshifting between reality and nightmare, cinema and dream.’ This free screening, presented in partnership with Queensland Film Festival (QFF), will be introduced by sound and film specialist Greg Hainge, University of Queensland.

Guest Info
  • Greg Hainge is a specialist in sound and film studies, with a special interest in avant-garde film. His is the author of Philippe Grandrieux: Sonic Cinema and Noise Matters: Towards an Ontology of Noise. He has written for an upcoming sound-art show in Madrid’s Museo Reina Sofía and for the forthcoming Blu-ray and artist-book edition of Scott Barley’s Sleep Has Her House.

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