Sleep Has Her House (2017)

Drama, Horror, Mystery /
7.3/10

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Sleep Has Her House Movie Reviews

A Deeply Moving Audiovisual Experience.

During the early moments of Sleep Has Her House, you get the feeling that something will eventually jump at you, but you quickly learn that this is not that kind of film. Sleep Has Her House is a film of extreme subjectivity as the viewer is concerned. With its sounds and images, it evokes emotions, ideas, and -most of all in my case- memories and wonderment.

It is composed of images that exist in a state of both motion and stillness at once, they seem to constantly expand and shrink. Objects and places slowly revealing themselves to you, except, is it really what you think it is? Images morphing into different things based on space, distance and light. But that’s all just a description. What this work forces you to do, is to bring your own experience, and your own emotions to it. While the images and the sounds navigate you through them. There’s a moment where it all goes to black, and stars slowly emerge from the darkness, alive and breathing, with beautiful and ethereal music, which suddenly cuts to what I perceive to be the heavens, driving me to shift my thinking to something higher, much higher than what I was bringing. And as soon as it lifted me, it dropped me back to it’s pit. It’s one of the most moving things I’ve ever seen in a film.

I know the filmmaker was partially inspired by Scott Walker and Grouper, and it’s truly fascinating how the influence of those sound artists is obvious on the images of the film.

Sleep Has Her House doesn’t aim to pass your time, but rather make you feel and live every minute of its running time. This is a great, highly experimental film, with a meticulous sound design that’s inseparable from its images.

A Melodic Dream

This is definitely among the best films of 2016, a rather strong year for cinema. It is a prodigious thought knowing that such a powerful film as Sleep Has Her House was shot on an iPhone. The darkly beautiful cinematography is complemented by harmonious score and ethereal images. Perhaps every last shot of the film could serve as its poster. Sleep combines the best elements of experimental films like The Hart of London, The Turin Horse, and Visions of Meditation to form an ineffable cinematic experience. The film is thoroughly engaging and beautifully shot and edited. Despite being considered a “slow movie”, Sleep Has Her House moves forward fairly quickly, never focusing on one shot for too long, balancing its themes quite well.

Perhaps Barley’s greatest achievement with this film is portraying a dream-like state, channeling the likes of Tarkovsky and Deren. The film’s length matches the time of an average sleep cycle, and the film itself carries the viewer through such a dream and its different stages.

The first part of the film depicts a sense of ambivalence within a dream found in the confines of nature. The remainder of the film appears as a gradual descent into nature’s acceptance of the world’s end, the true inevitable nightmare. This is accomplished with Barley’s impressive form and leaves this writer with a sense of awe, similar to the emotional response gained from Fricke and Reggio’s films, although through different subject matter.

This viewer expects a gradual increase of attention and appreciation for Barley’s work by cinephiles in the near future. It is great. Watch it for yourself.

This is something else…

…more an unforgettable experience than a film. It is nothing you just can watch with friends and chat and check your phone etc. I would strongly recommend to see it alone with no distraction and handle it a bit like a meditation. Give it it’s time and stay tuned what your mind will show you!

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