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Odes to Joyce features two media works by artists influenced and inspired by the late Joyce Wieland. The exhibition at Charles St. Video will showcase Munro Ferguson’s hand-drawn 3D  animation, “June” and Anna Feldman Gronau and Midi Onodera’s collaboration, “A Canadian Ghost Story: The Quilt for Joyce Wieland”. This Exhibition joins the conversations and celebrations […]

MIDI ONODERA: LANDSCAPING is co-presented by Dandelion and Factory Media Centre Films + Fortunes + Toy Camera Workshop by Midi Onodera Dandelion Pop-Up in Jackson Square 2 King St W, Hamilton, ON June 7–July 23, 2025 Opening + Screening | Saturday, June 7 | 2:00 p.m. The Series by Midi Onodera Factory Media Centre 366 […]

The Feminist Recycling Group presents: This is the Feminist Archive Featuring Vera Frenkel and Midi Onodera March 18, 2025 7:15 – 9:30 pm Innis College 2 Sussex Ave. 2nd floor. Thrilled to be apart of this on-going series of presentations organized by filmmaker Marusya Bociurkiw . Vera Frenkel  is a national treasure and there is […]

July 20 & 21 Royal Ontario Museum (ROM), Toronto I am pleased to present “You say rice. I say gohan” collaboration with Iori Matsushima this Sunday, July 21 as part of  the National Association of Japanese Canadians (NAJC) Film Festival. Iori and I will be in attendance. Tickets can be purchased here.    

Wednesday April 10, 6:30 pm Sign up here As the DECADE exhibition continues, Koffler Arts features a Gallery Talk with artists Barbara Astman and one of her former students, Midi Onodera. The two work in different media and styles, with Astman’s use of wide-ranging media and Onodera’s focus on video. After the two speak about their […]

DECADE opens on February 22nd and runs until May 12th. Ruth Adler / Barbara Astman / Shabnam K. Ghazi / Vid Ingelevics/Gillian Iles / Carolyn Murphy / Midi Onodera / Matthew Schofield Curated by David Liss In a building designed by architect C. H. Bishop, the Shaw Street Public School opened in 1914 and was […]

Saturday, February 3, 2024, 9:30 pm, The Screening Room 120 Princess St. Kingston Ontario. Hard to believe that its’ been almost 30 years ago that I made Skin Deep. It was certainly a different time. I am pleased the film is having a new screening at the ReelOut Queer Film + Video Festival in Kingston […]

Tuesday, November 21, 2023, 2:00 am to  Wednesday, December 6, 2023 12:30 am  Online at Collaborative Cataloguing Japan  Curated by independent programmer, Mia Parnall, this selection of work features “I have no memory of my direction” with Japanese subtitles along with 3 short films, Ville Quelle Ville? (1984), Nobody Knows (2002) with Japanese subtitles and Slightseer […]

7:00 pm – 9:30 pm | Wednesday October 25, 2023 Interspace | Ace Hotel Toronto 51 Camden St Free Admission Along with filmmakers are Joanna Decc and Agnès Hayden, I will be showing The Dead Zone and chatting about the work. The Ace Hotel series, “Shorts In Conversation,” makes a moment for cinema and dialogue. We […]

Archivist and queer historian Elizabeth Purchell is curating Queer Cinema: Lost & Found, an ongoing series at Austin Film Society, exploring “the history of queer cinema and its many ground-breaking pioneers in this refreshing behind-the-scenes look at the evolution of queer representation on screen.” The film will be screened with Annette Kennerley’s Boys In The […]