Phillip Barker (film director)
Phillip Barker | |
|---|---|
| Born | Bradford, Yorkshire, England |
| Nationality | Canadian |
| Occupation | Film director, production designer, screenwriter, artist |
| Website | http://www.phillipbarker.com |
Phillip Barker is a Canadian production designer and filmmaker.
In 2006, Barker received a Directors Guild of Canada Award for Outstanding Achievement in Production Design for Atom Egoyan's Where the Truth Lies.
In addition to working with Egoyan on ten feature films and two operas, Barker has been the production designer for films by directors such as Brian De Palma, Mira Nair, Lisa Cholodenko and Neil LaBute.
At the 2017 Vancouver International Film Festival, Barker's film Shadow Nettes won the award for Best Canadian Short Film.[1]
His own films have been widely shown internationally and have won numerous awards. In 2019 a tour of a retrospective of Phillip's films: Strange Machines, The Films of Phillip Barker along with a book of the same title that was edited by Mike Hoolboom, was presented by Montreal's Festival du nouveau cinéma, TIFF Bell Lightbox, and the Canadian Film Institute. In 2019, the Clermont-Ferrand Film Festival in France also hosted the retrospective along with an art exhibition of artists inspired by Phillip's films.
References[]
- ^ "VIFF Announces BC and Canadian Award Winners for the 36th Annual Festival" (Press release). Greater Vancouver International Film Festival Society. 7 October 2017. Retrieved 15 October 2017.
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