Hinterlands (2016 film)
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| Hinterlands | |
|---|---|
| Directed by | Scott Barley |
| Produced by | Scott Barley |
| Written by | Scott Barley |
| Music by | Scott Barley |
| Cinematography | Scott Barley |
| Edited by | Scott Barley |
Production company | Ether Films |
Release date | 2016 |
Running time | 7 minutes |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Language | English (text) |
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Hinterlands is a 2016 experimental short horror film, produced, directed, shot and edited by British filmmaker, Scott Barley.
The film was shot on an iPhone 6 and includes drawings and paintings by the artist.[1][2][3][4][5] Like Barley's other films, it has been described as challenging traditional narratives by integrating ecological and nonhuman perspectives, questioning the anthropocentric view of storytelling.[6]
Form and style[edit]
The film uses abstraction and surrealism, and follows a structuralist form that can be separated into three segments.[3][7]
The first section features a repeating montage series, consisting of slow tracking shots, gazing up from beneath trees silhouetted against a green and red-hued sunset. The tracking shots are accompanied by low-frequency sound and intercut with periods of black. The montage sequence repeats three times. With each repetition, the sequence’s final shot is extended, revealing more of the space. The disembodied camera continues to travel further towards an obscured vanishing point, passing deeper beneath the silhouetted trees and sunset.
At the end of the third repetition, a second section begins which breaks the repetition, employing camera shake, defocus aberration, an acceleration of camera movement, and an abrasive, percussive sound mix.
The film ends with a series of abstract, red-hued images. There is an implication that these scenes are occurring in a higher dimension of reality.[8][9][10][11]
“The unpredictable temporalities (featuring jumps, slips and pauses) and impossible visuals created from the layering of images recall worlds that feel alien rather than terrestrial. The act of perceiving becomes an unfamiliar one, and we lose the footholds of that which grounds us in our world - our senses. Though we can occasionally see an image of something we recognise in Hinterlands, the treachery of Barley’s images creates a processual doubt in our thinking and before we know it, what we thought we had recognised is replaced by something altogether different.” [12] — The Affective Database: Symulation and Enacting Worldhood in the Film-worlds of Scott Barley, Jack Buchanan, Networking Knowledge.
Release[edit]
Home media[edit]
Hinterlands was first released on 2nd October, 2016 on the video hosting platform Vimeo.[13] The film was released on Blu-ray with Sleep Has Her House and Womb in 2021. A second edition of the Blu-ray was released in April 2023.[14] The film was released as part of a collection of short films made between 2012 and 2020 on Blu-ray in 2024.[15]
Reception[edit]
Matt Turner, writing for Sight & Sound described the film as “a single pressurised short that explodes with an intensity that foreshadows the feature (Sleep Has Her House) that would follow [...] Before long, the sequence begins to fracture, a shuddering baseline accompanying the juddering frame, before erupting entirely into frenzy. The image strobes whilst the camera spirals, red lines blurring into haptic disarray.”[10]
Film historian, Nicole Brenez nominated Hinterlands as one of the five best films of the year in Sight & Sound's best films of 2016 poll.[16] In 2017, Italian film magazine, Lo Specchio Scuro described it as one of Barley's "most accomplished works", adding "the image seems to be about to explode under the vibration produced by the collision between the surface of reality and its filmic elaboration."[17] In Smartphone Filmmaking: Theory and Practice, film theorist Max Schleser described the film as "a space between cinema and the uncanny."[18]
See Also[edit]
References[edit]
- ↑ "Hinterlands — Scott Barley". scottbarley.com. Retrieved 2022-10-28.
- ↑ Wiedemann, Sebastian. "NoctilucaScreen Project: Incertezas (2016)". ClimaCom.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Schleser, Max (2021-08-26). Smartphone Filmmaking: Theory and Practice. Bloomsbury Publishing USA. ISBN 978-1-5013-6034-3. Search this book on
- ↑ Barley, Scott (2021-12-30). "Instagram post".
- ↑ Schleser, Max (2021-08-26). Smartphone Filmmaking: Theory and Practice. Bloomsbury Publishing USA. ISBN 978-1-5013-6034-3. Search this book on
- ↑ Wiedemann, Sebastian (2021-01-01). "NoctilucaScreen Project: Experimental Cinema in the Anthropocene. A Curatorial Proposal for a Cosmomorphic Cinema. (2021)". Art + Australia.
- ↑ Barley, Scott (2016-10-02), Hinterlands, retrieved 2024-01-08
- ↑ Hinterlands by Scott Barley, retrieved 2022-10-28
- ↑ Buchanan, Jack (2021-10-31). "The Affective Database: 'Symulation' and Enacting Worldhood in the Film-worlds of Scott Barley". Networking Knowledge: Journal of the MeCCSA Postgraduate Network. 14 (2): 147–159. doi:10.31165/nk.2021.142.645. ISSN 1755-9944. Unknown parameter
|s2cid=ignored (help) - ↑ 10.0 10.1 "Scott Barley's eternal gloaming | Sight & Sound". British Film Institute. 31 July 2018. Retrieved 2022-10-28.
- ↑ Baldassari, Lorenzo (2017-02-13). "Sleep Has Her House (Scott Barley, 2017) - Recensione". Lo Specchio Scuro (in italiano). Retrieved 2024-01-08.
- ↑ Buchanan, Jack (2021-10-31). "The Affective Database: 'Symulation' and Enacting Worldhood in the Film-worlds of Scott Barley". Networking Knowledge: Journal of the MeCCSA Postgraduate Network. 14 (2): 147–159. doi:10.31165/nk.2021.142.645. ISSN 1755-9944.
- ↑ Barley, Scott (2016-10-02), Hinterlands, retrieved 2023-07-22
- ↑ "store — Scott Barley". 2023-04-01. Archived from the original on 2023-04-01. Retrieved 2023-07-22. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ Barley, Scott (2025-01-20). "Store — Scott Barley". scottbarley.com. Archived from the original on 2024-08-14. Retrieved 2025-01-20. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ "The best films of 2016 | Sight & Sound". British Film Institute. 12 April 2017. Retrieved 2022-10-28.
- ↑ Baldassari, Lorenzo (2017-02-13). "Sleep Has Her House (Scott Barley, 2017) - Recensione". Lo Specchio Scuro (in italiano). Retrieved 2025-01-20.
- ↑ Schleser, Max (2021-08-26). Smartphone Filmmaking: Theory and Practice. Bloomsbury Publishing USA. ISBN 978-1-5013-6035-0. Search this book on
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