“In celebration of three decades of filmmaking the Liaison of Independent Filmmakers of Toronto (LIFT) has commissioned thirty Canadian film veterans and emerging voices to make new works originating on or in the spirit of Super 8mm film.” – LIFT

My new film The Grand Design will be screening on night 2 of the celebrations:

8:00pm Friday, January 20, 2012

Admission $8

Additional press can be found here:
Globe and Mail (published January 13, 2012)
Toronto Star (published January 12, 2012)

Full program details can be found at the LIFT website.

In conversation with Alison Loader, Midi Onodera discusses her inspiration for the table in her Vidoodles: Intimate Cinema exhibition, her bi-monthly Vidoodles series, toy cameras, and speaks on the importance of boundaries to an artistic practice. She also touches on her artistic process, what she’s learned from working on the Vidoodles series, miniature cinema, and the significance of the different letters in Vidoodles.

Vidoodles: Intimate Cinema is showing until December 9th in Montreal, Quebec at the Media Gallery located in the CJ Building on the Loyola campus (CJ 1.419). To read more about the exhibition and listen to Midi’s conversation with Alison, click one of the links below (audio clips are identical):

Mobile Media Gallery presents Vidoodles: Intimate Cinema

Mobilities.ca presents Midi Onodera: Vidoodles

Imaginations, an Alberta-based international publication focusing on cross-cultural image studies, recently published a shining review of Midi Onodera’s Vidoodles exhibition, currently up at the Concordia Media Gallery in Montreal. Alison Reiko Loader writes:

[What makes Onodera’s Vidoodles special is that] they are not simply glimpses into her or another’s subjective points of view, but rather are invitations to embody, experience and mix them with one’s own. Images, sound and text tug at thoughts buried just below the surface of daily life, turning perspective inward to yet another place of spectatorship.

Midi Onodera’s Vidoodles: Intimate Cinema, co-curated by Matt Soar and Monika Kin Gagnon, is showing from September 15-December 9, 2011, at the Concordia University Media Gallery, Loyola Campus, CJ Building 1.419, 7141 Sherbrooke Street West, in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.