Bio

Phillip Barker is an installation artist, filmmaker and production designer for film and theater. His film-based installations have toured internationally and include a commission by Expo ‘92 in Sevilla, Spain. His films have won numerous awards including Best Experimental Film at The Melbourne International Film Festival, and Best Short Film at The Atlantic Film Festival. His film Soul Cages received a Genie Award nomination for Best Live Action Short Film. A retrospective of his films and installations was produced by Cinematheque Ontario, at the Art Gallery of Ontario, Canada. His most recent film Malody won Most Creative Film Award, at the 42nd Festival Du Nouveau Cinéma, Montreal. The film also received Best Short Film Award at the 14th International Film Festival, Bratislava, and was chosen as Canada’s Top Ten by the Toronto International Film Festival, 2012.

His work can be seen at www.phillipbarker.com

 

Works

Malody

  • 2012
  • Phillip Barker

A young woman, sicker than those who dare to eat the food at the all-night diner she's perched in, catches a ghostly reflection of herself as a child. This inspires a topsy-turvy cataclysm, hermetically sealed within a huge wheel rolling through a movie studio.

Malody

Slow Blink

  • 2010
  • Phillip Barker

A camera is locked upon a dancers face, framed in a perpetual and intimate close-up. The film gives the viewer license to stare, to invest and spend time gazing at a face and we feel it in our bodies. This film was made with over 300 stills from a Holga Camera and 8 rolls of Super 8 film.

Slow Blink

Night Vision

  • 2008
  • Phillip Barker

A scientist swims underwater at night, her body adorned with pulsing electric lights. A blind man sends giant soap bubbles filled with his memories floating across a lake. Children play innocently on a raft as they drift downstream towards the edge of a perilous waterfall. Night Vision brings together stories of people who find light in darkness.

Night Vision

Regarding

  • 2002
  • Phillip Barker

Regarding is a film inspired by scene no. 50 from The Red Violin (1998). In this free adaptation, the violin has been changed into a camera, an object that ignites a young woman's passion for fame.

Regarding