Jeff Barnaby
Jeff Barnaby was a Mi'kmaqi director, writer, composer and film editor. He is best known for his feature films Rhymes for Young Ghouls and Blood Quantum.
Rhymes for Young Ghouls
(2013)
In 1976, a Mi'gMaq teenager plots revenge against the sadistic Indian agent who imprisoned her in a residential school where rape and abuse are common. (more)
In 1976, a Mi'gMaq teenager plots revenge against the sadistic Indian agent who imprisoned her in a residential school where rape and abuse are common. (more)
File Under Miscellaneous (2010)
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 ... (more)
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 ... (more)
Blood Quantum
(2019)
The dead are coming back to life outside the isolated Mi'kmaq reserve of Red Crow, except for its Indigenous inhabitants who are strangely immune to the zombie plague. (more)
The dead are coming back to life outside the isolated Mi'kmaq reserve of Red Crow, except for its Indigenous inhabitants who are strangely immune to the zombie plague. (more)
Black Out (2003)
A young woman obsessed with her body goes to brutal lengths to fit into her favourite dress. (more)
A young woman obsessed with her body goes to brutal lengths to fit into her favourite dress. (more)
Red Right Hand (2004)
"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" (imagineNATIVE). (more)
"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" (imagineNATIVE). (more)
The Colony
(2007)
A Mi'gmaq man struggling with life off the reservation descends into drug-addled madness when his girlfriend leaves him for his best friend, turning his rage and despair against the only visible enemy: the swarm of cockroaches that have invaded his trailer. (more)
A Mi'gmaq man struggling with life off the reservation descends into drug-addled madness when his girlfriend leaves him for his best friend, turning his rage and despair against the only visible enemy: the swarm of cockroaches that have invaded his trailer. (more)
Etlinisigu'niet (Bleed Down)
(2015)
Etlinisigu’niet (Bleed Down) is part of Souvenir, a four-film series addressing Indigenous identity and representation by reworking material in the NFB’s archives. (more)
Etlinisigu’niet (Bleed Down) is part of Souvenir, a four-film series addressing Indigenous identity and representation by reworking material in the NFB’s archives. (more)
From Cherry English (2004)
A surrealistic allergory on the loss of language and identity in the city from an indigenous perspective. (more)
A surrealistic allergory on the loss of language and identity in the city from an indigenous perspective. (more)