Art Barkley (November 24, 2003) is an Uruguayan director and screenwriter, born and based in the city of Durazno.

In 2024, he made the short film Tu Pelo Tu Cara, an autofiction work premiered and distributed in the same year within Uruguay’s alternative circuit.

Otro Día / Carta Abierta was made through an alternative production framework. For one year, Art Barkley worked with actors Olivia Opizo Korondi and Facundo Rosa to portray Alma and Bruno, two characters navigating the end of their romance. Through rehearsals, re-enactments, games, and other filmic experiments, Alma’s memories were shot—these constitute “Carta Abierta.” The project concluded with two blocks of shooting with a traditional crew during the second half of 2024 and the first half of 2025, thus completing what was needed for “Otro Día.” In the editing process, these two universes—the diary-like filmic record and the traditional fiction narrative—interweave to create a dialogue between Alma’s memories and the re-fictionalized recreation of her life.

Art Barkley is a member of the audiovisual collective Álamo, alongside other independent filmmakers.