Phillip Barker is a Canadian artist and production designer for film , tv and theater . 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 ’s films : '' Strange Machines , The Films of Phillip Barker . '' A book 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
Vancouver International Film Festival
Vancouver International Film Festival
Phillip Barker (film director)