Sleep Has Her House is a 2017 British experimental film written, directed, produced, scored, and edited by Scott Barley.

[1][2] The film is considered part of the slow cinema movement due to its use of long takes, the longest of which is an 11-minute shot of the sun setting.

The book included essays by Barley as well as film directors and academics from Europe, America, Asia, and Australia, with a foreword by cultural historian Nicole Brenez.

[10] James Slaymaker of Mubi Notebook wrote: "Like the great Jean-Marie Straub, Scott Barley creates striking images by returning us to the basics of cinema, the natural world, but abstracting it through profilmic means by reducing the landscape to pure, basic forms [...] If Sleep Has Her House at first calls to mind the expressionist landscapes of Peter Hutton, Victor Sjöström, and Jean-Marie Straub, the formal apocalypse of its final act recalls the smeary digital cacophony of Lucien Castaing-Taylor and Véréna Paravel's Leviathan.

Sleep Has Her House is a vital reminder that the most potent visual abstractions can be created through something as simple as the shifting colour of the sky reflected in water, and the most jarring shock can come from a change in lens.

"[citation needed] For the Canadian premiere, film critic, Josh Cabrita wrote in The Georgia Straight: "Barley has more in common with Caspar David Friedrich than any contemporary avant-gardist, finding the terrible sublime through grand footage shot on nothing less than an iPhone.

"[12] Influential American experimental filmmaker Phil Solomon wrote of the film: "There are moments within Sleep Has Her House of such exquisite and subtle rendering of ‘moving light in place’ that I have always dreamed of experiencing in the cinema.