Midi Onodera Filmes

a short video by midi onodera

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...

a short video by midi onodera

A filmmaker initiates a dangerous and threatening game when a woman responds to her ad in a tattoo magazine.

There are so many colours in the rainbow. (Midi Onodera Short Film)

a short video by midi onodera

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...

“Ville Quelle Ville?” reflects a satirical view of city life, commonplace and redundant. Urban life is portrayed as a series of rituals:...

The Displaced View traces a personal search for identity and pride, within the unique and suppressed history of the Japanese in Canada. Through an...

Confusion, underlying meaning and unspoken truths are often associated with the dialectic of sexual communication. Mingled with the intensity and...

A work exploring the nature of vision, framed within two circular ‘windows’ that mimic the apparatus of binocular vision. The film is...

The intermittently heard voice-over talks about a woman's self-awareness - being unable to know if she has really changed or not. The images are...

Images, repetitive in visual completion, combine with a popular music track and self-acknowledging voice-over to form a void of numbed loneliness and...

North American portrayals of Japan perpetuate the myths of Americanized culture, distorting and misrepresenting traditional values.

Black-and-white images of waves dissolving over stills of gravestones, old fences, boats on the shore, and a voice meditating on the joys of celibacy.

Step-printed images of a “home” - a suburban house, no people in sight - combine with a children's story, told in saccarine tones, about...

a short video by midi onodera

a renovatio n is a document of labour

In October 1984, peformance artist/filmmaker extraordinaire, Jack Smith was coaxed out of his New York apartment for a five night run of performances...

Ostensibly searching for an emotional connection with her aging father, the woman contemplates her own inherited culture and familial touchstones....