Jeff Barnaby

Film & Video

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.

In their own words (transcript)

For me personally, I try to kind of make it as beautiful and as conceptually interesting as I possibly can. Jeff Barnaby

I think a lot of my creativity comes from a lot of different sources. Initially, when I first started getting into film, I think it was just out of the frustration of not really seeing Natives, the kind of Natives I grew up with, anyway, being represented accurately on screen.

I just want to be honest to the characters, and I think that if you do that, and if you make it pretty enough, you’ve pretty much got a good movie on your hands.

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