Since beginning his career a decade ago with the Sadness of Joe Jangles, Jeffrey St. Jules has established himself as one Canada’s most fiercely original and off-kilter voices through a series of highly stylized short films packed with wry humour and cheeky experimentation with form.
Jules’s latest film, Bang Bang Baby, fits in neatly with his oeuvre: it’s a genre-twisting musical about big hopes and busted dreams, set in a surreally detailed vision of the 1960s. The film has already debuted to high praise—it garnered the Best Canadian First Feature at this year’s Toronto International Film Festival.
In our latest episode of The Director’s Canvas, we caught up with Jeffrey at his east end home in Toronto to discuss his much buzzed about TIFF feature premiere, his experimental doc for NFB, and the ten-year development process for Bang Bang Baby.