Here are selected reviews and articles about my work.

In Amsterdam In 1989 I made Trust A Boat, a “Filmskulptuur” where I rear-projected twelve 16mm films onto the windows of a building. Each and every window was filled up with a part of one overall film image.

Sometimes the audience on the street were like voyeurs, watching (filmed) silhouettes of people at home performing mundane rituals. At other times they watched the building fill full of water, and giant goldfish swim through the walls and floors.

The installation / performance was seen by over 10,000 people in two countries and five cities. With this project I remember being thrilled to discover the visceral power of film when used outside of the black box.

Mike Hoolboom wrote my-favourite-review-ever in an article (that I just recently understood!) “Phillip Barker And The Modest Spectacle Of Trust” in Composition Magazine in 1989.
Other words about this project: Cantrills Film Notes, The Independent Eye “Leaving The Theatre”

Marie Perrault, in her article “Personal Cinema-Verite: Two Installations by Phillip Barker” for  ETC Montreal compared Trust A Boat with Five Souls Released From Fetters, my film installation in a former church on the banks of the St. Lawrence River in Rimouski, Quebec. Projected from the churches windows were film loops of various people emerging upside down from water. At this location in 1914, the Empress of Ireland was shipwrecked, killing over 1000 passengers.

I like these words from Barbara Goslawski in Take One Magazine on my film Soul Cages.

Some words have been spilled about my production design for film: Canadian Interiors.

I have attempted to make sense of what I do, in my article for Montage: “Perfecting the Art of Imperfection”