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Nationality
  
Canadian

Name
  
Midi Onodera


Role
  
Filmmaker

Known for
  
Film, Video art

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Website
  
http://www.midionodera.com/

Movies
  
Skin Deep, The Basement Girl, Displaced View, Ten Cents A Dance, The Grand Design

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Nominations
  
Gemini Award for Best Documentary Program

Art Intersections Meetup: Midi Onodera


Midi Onodera (born in Toronto, Ontario) is a Japanese-Canadian filmmaker. Her work is short and feature-length films and videos, and is exhibited internationally. She has 25+ independent short films to her credit as well as a theatrical feature film and numerous short videos. Beginning in 2006, Midi created almost 500 short videos for various projects. She has published two essays on mobile cinema for the media journal, Jump Cut, which features both a visual video essay and a written essay.

Contents

Onodera's works feature a collage of formats, from 16mm to Hi8 video and digital video to 'low end' digital toy formats, and address individual, collective, national and transnational identities.

Filmography

  • Untitled (1979)
  • Contemplation (1979)
  • Reality-Illusion (1979)
  • A Film (1980)
  • Filter Queen (1980)
  • The Bird That Chirped On Bathurst (1981)
  • Home Movies (1981)
  • Food Trilogy (1981)
  • What's For Lunch Charley?
  • One Burger, Hold the Pickle
  • Aprés Diner
  • Endocrine (1982)
  • One If By Land, Two If By Sea (1982)
  • Idiot's Delight (1983)
  • Home Was Never Like This (1983)
  • Ville Quelle Ville (1984)
  • Ten Cents A Dance (1985)
  • Made In Japan (1985)
  • After Car Crash, Woman Kills Two (1985)
  • The Dead Zone (1985)
  • The Displaced View (1988)
  • Then/Now (1988)
  • General Idea - Artist's Profile (1989)
  • David Cronenberg - Artist's Profile (1990)
  • Heartbreak Hoteru (1990)
  • A Performance by Jack Smith (1992)
  • Skin Deep (1995)
  • the basement girl (2000)
  • Slightseer (2001)
  • Nobody Knows (2002)
  • Alphagirls (2002)
  • I have no memory of my direction (2005)
  • 365 SHORT VIDEOS (2006)
  • First Bloom, shortlisted at Filminute 2007 (2007)
  • A Movie a Week (2009)

    • References

    Midi Onodera Wikipedia
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