Private Project

BARK.

As a young woman walks home alone one night, a chance encounter with a missing dog incites the reclamation of her body and self — as she learns to bite as tough as her bark.

  • Caoimhe M. Harley
    Director
  • Caoimhe M. Harley
    Writer
  • Nestka Jarnot
    Producer
  • Caoimhe M. Harley
    Story
  • Ellena Dilling
    Story
  • Grace Bowyer
    Key Cast
    "The Woman"
  • David Greeves
    Key Cast
    "Burly Man"
  • Wilbur
    Key Cast
    "The Dog"
  • Duncan Whitmore
    Director of Photography
  • Caoimhe M. Harley
    Production Design
  • Patrick Humphreys
    Production Design
  • William Armitage
    Editor
  • Luca Campodifiori
    Editor
  • Caoimhe M. Harley
    Costume Design
  • Nestka Jarnot
    Costume Design
  • Caitlin Brown
    Composer
  • Nestka Jarnot
    Casting
  • Caoimhe M. Harley
    Casting
  • Molly Harrison
    1st Assistant Director
  • Harvey Plummer
    1st Assistant Director
  • Nestka Jarnot
    1st Assistant Director
  • Josh Hooker
    1st Assistant Camera (A Camera)
  • Jack Donnelly
    2nd Assistant Camera (A Camera)
  • Olufikayo Bright
    2nd Assistant Camera (A Camera)
  • Jamie Coupland
    B Camera Operator
  • Theo Kemp
    1st Assistant Camera (B Camera)
  • Lily Brittain
    Gaffer
  • Jess James
    Spark
  • Jess McFarlene
    Wardrobe
  • Aoife-Rose Alford
    Wardrobe
  • Caoimhe M. Harley
    Makeup
  • Crystal Faith Stuart Fawkes
    Makeup
  • Oli Saunders
    Script Supervisor
  • Julie Minichová
    Stills Photography
  • Amelia Robinson
    Stills Photography
  • Roy Young
    Dog Trainer
  • Mateusz Olszewski
    Supporting Artist
  • Rex Williams
    Supporting Artist
  • Stanley Tucker
    Supporting Artist
  • Finlay Cummins
    Supporting Artist
  • Mateusz Olszewski
    Location Marhsall
  • Rex Williams
    Location Marhsall
  • Angus Green
    Sound Recordist
  • Jacob Dodson
    Sound Recordist
  • Oliver Venning
    Sound Recordist
  • William Armitage
    Colour Grading
  • Project Type:
    Experimental, Short, Student
  • Genres:
    Experimental, Narrative, Psychological, Magical Realist, Drama
  • Runtime:
    9 minutes 59 seconds
  • Completion Date:
    October 7, 2024
  • Production Budget:
    1,000 GBP
  • Country of Origin:
    United Kingdom
  • Country of Filming:
    United Kingdom
  • Language:
    English
  • Shooting Format:
    16mm, Arriflex, KODAK 500T
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    Yes - Falmouth University School of Film & Television
Director Biography - Caoimhe M. Harley

Caoimhe M. Harley has been making films since the age of seven, with both big and small experiences across the industry.

Her time studying Film at Falmouth's School of Film and Television gave her space to refine her passion for creative storytelling, specialising in writing and directing with a background in the art department. With an emphasis on young womanhood, Harley’s work opts to explore the struggles of navigating a world built to brutalise women, as demonstrated in her 2021 experimental short, ‘i am alone but i still perform’.

BARK. is Harley's debut as a writer/director, inspired by the impact of events in her adolescence, and created as a confrontation to the recent rise in societal misogyny and femicide across the globe.

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Director Statement

Two years ago I was not myself.

After being catcalled at 13, and assaulted at 19, the repossession of my own body and unlearning misogyny is a daily task which I’ve only scratched the surface of. The intention of BARK. is to act as a catalyst for others to acknowledge their own victimhoods, and to unlearn the detrimental impact which misogyny and rape culture has placed upon us.

BARK. may be hearty and personal, but it is also inherently relatable through its themes of loneliness and confusion about victimhood in a world which is disciplined to treat you that way.

As a young writer/director, I feel as if I have a responsibility to portray honest experiences of the feminine, and to tackle issues which myself and other women are the victims of — neither of which BARK. shies away from.