Terres en Vue / Land inSights and The Fantasia International Film Festival present:
RED RIGHT HAND: THE FILMS OF JEFF BARNABY

Saturday August 6th at Blue Sunshine
3660 St Laurent, 3rd Flr
Doors: 8:15pm | Films: 9:00pm
www.blue-sunshine.com

“Jeff Barnaby says he makes “bare-knuckled cinema”… and he means it. His raw, gritty depictions of what he refers to as the post-apocalyptic culture we now live in bear little resemblance to the spiritually centred, sanitized image of Aboriginal peoples often seen in contemporary cinema.” (Indigenous Arts Network)

Jeff was born on a Mi’gmaq reserve in Listujug, Quebec. He has buy levitra online us worked as an artist, poet, author and filmmaker. His work paints a stark and scathing portrait of post-colonial aboriginal life and culture. His third short film, File Under Miscellaneous (10), is currently playing the festival circuit. His previous films include From Cherry English viagra generic 100mg (04) and The Colony (07). Jeff is currently in development on two feature films, Blood Quantum & Rhymes for Young Ghouls.

Program includes:

File Under Miscellaneous
(2010, 7min.)

Set in a dystopic metropolitan hellscape, a spiritually exhausted and destitute Mi’gMaq man has resolved to assimilate into the ruling culture. He visits a surgical clinic – the display window littered with skin and limb samples – and undergoes a gruesome procedure to rid him of his red skin.

The Colony
(2007, 24min.)

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 viagra no prescription 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
(2004, 10min.)

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
(2004, 9min.)

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
(2003, 4min.)

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

Neurotica
(student film, 2001)

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.

About the author:

Kier-La Janisse

Kier-La Janisse is a film writer, publisher, producer, acquisitions executive for Severin Films and an Adjunct Associate Professor in the School of Communication and Creative Arts at Deakin University. She is the author of Cockfight: A Fable of Failure (2024), House of Psychotic Women: An Autobiographical Topography of Female Neurosis in Horror and Exploitation Films (2012/2022) and A Violent Professional: The Films of Luciano Rossi (2007) and has been an editor on numerous books including Warped & Faded: Weird Wednesday and the Birth of the American Genre Film Archive (2021) and Satanic Panic: Pop-Cultural Paranoia in the 1980s (2015). She wrote, directed and produced the award-winning documentary Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched: A History of Folk Horror (2021), and produced the acclaimed blu-ray box sets All the Haunts Be Ours: A Compendium of Folk Horror (2021) and The Sensual World of Black Emanuelle (2023).