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.^[1]

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.^[1]

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

Awards

References

External links

• Official website
• Midi Onodera at the Internet Movie Database
• Midi Onodera in Women Make Movies
• "A Parallax View of Lesbian Authorship", Judith Mayne, in Film and authorship, ed. Virginia Wright Wexman. Rutgers University Press, 2003.