File Under Miscellaneous

Errant dans un univers orwellien, un homme Mi’gmaq, spirituellement épuisé et démuni, a décidé de s'assimiler à la culture dominante. Il se rend dans une clinique où on le débarrassera de sa peau rouge.

Coprésentation avec Fantasia, Blue Sunshine, Prospector Films

Soirée rencontre avec Jeff Barnaby

Tel un Rimbaud cinématographique, Jeff Barnaby fait fi des conventions et des bonnes manières, bouscule les idées reçues, réhabilite le mauvais goût face aux esthétismes lénifiants, renverse les meubles, ose l’im- pensable et filme. Soirée rencontre avec un brillant cinéaste mi’gmaq et ses films hors-normes. À partir de son dernier opus (Files under Miscellaneous en course dans la compétition 2011) une rétrospective (The Colony , From Cherry English, Red Right Hand, Black Out, Nuerotica) en compagnie du réalisateur.

The Colony – 24 minutes – 2007 – 35mm

A bi-racial ménage a trois drenched in surrealist urban skank. Maytag, a reservation displaced Mi’gMaq, latches onto the only other Indian within light years of the city only to have her snatched away by his drug dealer and friend. Sadistically lovesick and drug addled, Maytag launches an insecticide on the cockroaches that have colonized his trailer convinced that they helped steal his fiancé. Heart broken and thoroughly crushed, he turns to his only friend for solace, his chainsaw. A demented allegory on miscegenation, the plight of modern native Canadians and their affinity for self-destruction.

From Cherry English – 10 minutes – 2004 – HD

From Cherry English is a surrealist Mi'gMac allegory about the loss of language and identity to the anonymity of the urban wasteland. Traylor, a Mi'gMaq man being pulled between two worlds meets a non-native woman who sends him on a hallucinogenic journey of masochism and self discovery.

Red Right Hand - 9:00 min, 2004, DV, Colour

If you want to show skank, this is how you do it. A descent into the depths of degradation. A malicious work of cinematic beauty.

Black Out – 4 minutes – 2oo3 DV

Obsessed with her body, a young woman goes to violent lengths to fit into her favorite dress.

Nuerotica (student film) – 2001 - VHS (not sure yet how long it is.  the tape is stuck in the mail)

A take on homophobia, a young man ventures into a public bathroom only to have his worst fears realized.  Only Barnaby's second student film, shot with a lo-fi modified analogue VHS camcorder, it is the first hint of the bio-centric horror, disdain for political-correctness and honed aesthetic that has made Barnaby one of Canada's most promising young filmmakers.

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