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Phillip Barker is a Canadian director, screenwriter, producer, artist and production designer for film, television and theatre. He received a Directors Guild of Canada Award for Outstanding Achievement in Production Design for Atom Egoyan's Where the Truth Lies.
He has been the production designer for films by directors such as Brian De Palma, Mira Nair, Atom Egoyan (ten feature films and two operas), Lisa Cholodenko and Neil LaBute.
His film-based installations have toured internationally and include commissions by ARCO International Art Fair in Madrid, The City of Amsterdam Arts Foundation, and Expo ‘92 in Sevilla, Spain.
His own films have been widely shown internationally and have won numerous awards. Currently on tour is a survey of Phillip'sfilms: Strange Machines, The Films of Phillip Barker. Abook of the same name has been helmed and edited by filmmaker and writer Mike Hoolboom.This retrospective has been hosted by, amongst others: Montreal's Festival du Nouveau Cinema, TIFF Lightbox, Toronto, and The Canadian Film Institute, Ottawa. In 2019 The Clermont-Ferrand Film Fesitval in France hosted the retrospective and an art exhibition of artists inspired by Phillip's films.
At the 2017 Vancouver International Film Festival, Barker's film Shadow Nettes won the award for Best Canadian Short Film.