- Description:
- DVD - Region 1. viewing copy. 1 videodisc of 1.
- Notes:
- A collection of selected works by Midi Onodera. Since the 1980s, Onodera has produced an impressive body of acclaimed and ground-breaking films and videos. Her work is featured in numerous international exhibitions and screenings and included in the collections of many art galleries, libraries, and universities. The short films in this DVD volume are adventurous explorations of multiple film and video formats - from 16mm and Super-8 film to analogue and digital toy cameras. The films are sensitive poetic ruminations on loss: the ending of relationships, the failure of perception, and the outsider’s aloneness.
Supplemental materials include: essays on the films and interviews with Midi Onodera.
Titles
+ Skin Deep
- Director:
- Onodera, Midi
- Production Co:
- Daruma Pictures; Studio D
- Running Time:
- Feature. 81 minutes
- Sound:
- sound
- Color:
- color
- Country:
- Canada
- Year:
- 1995
- Language:
- English language
- Genre:
- Drama, Female Directors, LGBT Interest
- Notes:
- Skin Deep leads us into worlds where people are never what they appear to be. It is a riveting psychological drama about obsession, relationship and sexuality.
As Alex Koyama prepares to shoot an exploitation film about tattooing and the culture of pleasure and pain, the world around her exists only to serve her film. She initiates a dangerous and threatening game when Chris Black responds to her ad in a tattoo magazine. For Alex, this is living research, and she ignores the fact that Chris is deeply disturbed and gender-disoriented. This denial escalates into a psychological battle between Alex and Chris which alters their lives forever – because in a world of illusion, reality is the biggest lie.
- Link to:
- FII catalog |
+ Basement Girl, The
- Director:
- Onodera, Midi
- Running Time:
- Short. 12 minutes
- Sound:
- sound
- Color:
- color
- Country:
- Canada
- Year:
- 2000
- Language:
- English language
- Genre:
- Female Directors, Drama
- Notes:
- Abandoned by her lover, a young woman finds comfort and safety in her basement apartment. Mundane routines, a diet of junk food and the warmth of the television insulate her from the pain and betrayal of her ill-fated relationship. Eventually, The Basement Girl emerges – transformed and ready to “make it on her own.”
The Basement Girl breaks new cinematic territory by employing multiple formats from traditional 16 mm film to toy cameras including a modified Nintendo Game Boy digital camera and the Intel Mattel computer microscope.
+ Sightseer
- Director:
- Onodera, Midi
- Production Co:
- Liaison of Independent Filmmakers of Toronto for their 20th Anniversary
- Running Time:
- Short. 3 minutes
- Sound:
- sound
- Color:
- color
- Country:
- Canada
- Year:
- 2001
- Language:
- English language with English subtitles
- Genre:
- Female Directors, Experimental / Avant Garde
- Notes:
- Some people say that cinema in its present state is on the verge of dying. But cinema is much more than just the magical chemistry concealed within this format. It is imagination, faith, and suspension of belief. It is our collective past, a reflection of ourselves. Without this history we are doomed to repeat the past. Without our continued thirst to quench our vision we are simply sightseers in a “global image economy”.
+ Nobody Knows
- Director:
- Onodera, Midi
- Running Time:
- Short. 3 minutes
- Sound:
- sound
- Color:
- color
- Country:
- Canada
- Year:
- 2002
- Language:
- English language
- Genre:
- Female Directors, Experimental / Avant Garde
- Notes:
- Nobody Knows is a short poetic video that eloquently hints at a few inner thoughts of a solitary young woman. Shot in 2 toy camera formats, the Lomographic 35mm Supersampler and the Intel Play Digital Movie Creator, Nobody Knows embraces alternative photography in both the celluloid and the digital realms.