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.
Stuck on the peripheries of the film industry, a struggling grad student named Erik comes to the realization that his thesis film should be about a grad student named Erik coming to the realization of what his thesis film should be.
Two separate, yet poetically connected films that act as a threnody on nature. Mikel Guillen's film is dedicated to the artist, Hiroshi Sugimoto. Scott Barley's film is dedicated to the artist, Vija Celmins.
Sangría, a short film about a Roma woman abandoning her 7 year old son. A film by Mikel Guillén. London (UK), Boston, Deauville (France) Sarajevo Film Festivals, 2009
Scott Barley and Mikel Guillen’s second collaboration, The Emerald Fire is inspired by the eleven Hijabaat (veils) of Sufism, feminine divinity, ascension, and the mereology of reality and experience itself.
“I Deserve” (2015) is an avant-garde film, an essay of archetypes, female archetypes in the corporate and extremely capitalist world that we live in. It was inspired by the need to be and appear “successful” and effective. The idea that the oppressed have to be overcome as an objective and...
It’s a film about suspension. A suspension of thought.Its inspired by the disappearance of Mariam Makhniashvili who disappeared in Toronto but was found dead two years after. It’s about remembrance, the power of a suspended thought. When a loved one disappears or someone vanishes for no...
