Midi Onodera is an award-winning Japanese-Canadian filmmaker. Her work is short and feature-length films and videos, and is exhibited internationally.

Onodera's works feature a collage of formats, from 16mm to Hi8 video and digital video

Digital video

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 to 'low end' digital toy formats, and address individual, collective, national and transnational identities.

Filmography

• A Movie a Week / 2009
• First Bloom, shortlisted at Filminute
  Filminute
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   2007 (2007)
• 365 SHORT VIDEOS (2006)
• I have no memory of my direction (2005)
• Nobody Knows (2002)
• Alphagirls (2002)
• Slightseer (2001)
• the basement girl (2000)
• Skin Deep
  Skin Deep (1995 film)
  -Plot:Skin Deep tells the story of an award winning director, Alex Koyama , who is in the process of making a film about the tattoo industry, and the love and obsession that can arise in the "skin art" culture...
  
   (1995)
• A Performance by Jack Smith (1992)
• David Cronenberg
  David Cronenberg
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   - Artist's Profile (1990)
• Heartbreak Hoteru (1990)
• General Idea
  General Idea
  General Idea was a collective of three Canadian artists, Felix Partz, Jorge Zontal and AA Bronson, who were active from 1967 to 1994.As pioneers of early conceptual and media-based art, their collaboration became a model for artist-initiated activities and continues to be a prominent influence on...
  
   - Artist's Profile (1989)
• The Displaced View (1988)
• Then/Now (1988)
• Ten Cents A Dance
  Ten Cents a Dance
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   (1985)
• Made In Japan (1985)
• After Car Crash, Woman Kills Two (1985)
• The Dead Zone (1985)
• Ville Quelle Ville (1984)
• Idiot's Delight (1983)
• Home Was Never Like This (1983)
• Endocrine (1982)
• One If By Land, Two If By Sea (1982)
• 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
• A Film (1980)
• Filter Queen (1980)
• Untitled (1979)
• Contemplation (1979)
• Reality-Illusion (1979)

Awards

Year	Award	Festival	Film
2006	Honorable Mention	Ann Arbor Film Festival Ann Arbor Film Festival The Ann Arbor Film Festival is an annual film festival held in Ann Arbor in the U.S. state of Michigan. Established in 1963, it is the third-oldest film festival in North America ; and the oldest experimental film festival...	I Have No Memory of My Direction
	Honorable Mention	Mobifest	If These Walls Could Talk
2001	Best Lesbian Short Film	Girlfriends Girlfriends (magazine) Girlfriends was a women's magazine that provided critical coverage of culture, entertainment and world events from a lesbian perspective. It was founded by Jacob Anderson-Minshall, Diane Anderson-Minshall, and Heather Findlay. It also offered relationship, health and travel advice. Published... magazine's Sapphos 2001 Movie Awards	The Basement Girl
1995	Best Feature Film: Audience Award	Hamburg International Lesbian & Gay Film Festival	Skin Deep
	Best Short Film: Special Judges' Award	Hamburg International Lesbian & Gay Film Festival	Ten Cents a Dance (Parallax)
1989	Best Documentary (nominated)	Gemini Awards	The Displaced View
	Special Citation	Gemini Awards	The Displaced View
1988	Honorable Mention, Golden Gate Award Golden Gate Award Golden Gate Award may refer to:* A film award at the San Francisco International Film Festival* An award part of the GLAAD Media Awards...	San Francisco International Film Festival San Francisco International Film Festival San Francisco International Film Festival is the oldest continuously running film festival in the Americas. Organized by the San Francisco Film Society, the International is held each spring for two weeks, presenting an average of 150 films from over 50 countries...	The Displaced View

External links

• Official website
• 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.