Phillip Barker

Phillip Barker

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BiographyPhillip Barker is a Canadian artist, filmmaker, and production designer, based in Toronto, Ontario.

As a production designer, his work includes eleven feature films and two live operas with director Atom Egoyan. In 2006, Barker received a Directors Guild of Canada Award for Outstanding Achievement in Production Design for his work on Egoyan's Where the Truth Lies.

Barker's production design has also been featured in films by directors such as Brian De Palma, Mira Nair, Lisa Cholodenko and Neil LaBute and Adam Bernstein.

Recently a retrospective of his own work was presented at the Clermont-Ferrand Film Festival, the Festival du nouveau cinéma, Toronto International Film Festival, the Kaohsiung Film Festival (Taiwan), the Danish Film Institute and the Canadian Film Institute. The retrospective was accompanied by a 200 page book Strange Machines, The Films of Phillip Barker by writer and film maker Mike Hoolboom.

EarthWorm, a new short film written and directed by Barker, and co-created with Seungwoo Park, won the Canadian Grand Prix at Regard film festival, and was selected as Canada's Top Ten by the Toronto International Film Festival, 2024.

Biography from the Wikipedia article Phillip Barker (film director). Licensed under CC-BY-SA. Full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

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