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29 Jan – 8 Feb 2026

Phillip Barker

Phillip BARKER (UK) makes films and installations, and works as a designer for film and theatre. Barker was production designer for feature films by Brian De Palma, Mira Nair, Neil LaBute and Atom Egoyan. In his work, he likes to combine film, sculptures, music and dance. Barker has won several prizes, for instance at Toronto Worldwide Short Film Festival. Barker lives and works in Ontario, Canada.

Filmography

Trust a Boat (1986, instal), Magnetic Fields (1989, instal), Campos Magneticos (1991, instal), A Temporary Arrangement (1996, short), I Am Always Connected (1998, short), Fetters (1998, instal), Soul Cages (1999, short), Regarding (2002, short), Critical Mass (2004, instal), Night Vision (2008, short), Malody (2012, short)

Phillip Barker at IFFR

  • Redacted

    With staged archive material Brian De Palma reconstructed the rape and murder in 2006 of innocent Iraqi citizens by American recruits. Shocking and

  • Prelude

    Avant-garde master Snow reflects on an evening at the cinema.

  • Malody

    Chaos in a diner built in a rolling wheel when the gravitational pull changes and sets off a chain of events. Strange and hallucinating fiction.