Jeff Barnaby

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.

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.

A surrealistic allergory on the loss of language and identity in the city from an indigenous perspective.

Set in a dystopian metropolitan hellscape, a spiritually exhausted and destitute Mi'gMaq man resolves to assimilate into the ruling culture. To this end, he visits a surgical clinic that offers a gruesome procedure.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

A surrealistic allergory on the loss of language and identity in the city from an indigenous perspective.

Set in a dystopian metropolitan hellscape, a spiritually exhausted and destitute Mi'gMaq man resolves to assimilate into the ruling culture. To this end, he visits a surgical clinic that offers a gruesome procedure.

Set in a dystopian metropolitan hellscape, a spiritually exhausted and destitute Mi'gMaq man resolves to assimilate into the ruling culture. To this end, he visits a surgical clinic that offers a gruesome procedure.

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.

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.

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.

A young woman obsessed with her body goes to brutal lengths to fit into her favourite dress.

"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).