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9:00 pm Friday July 9 The 14th the8fest OUT OF PLACE: Spotlight on the Super 8 Films of Midi Onodera Curated by Milada Kovacova 8:00 pm Sunday July 11 Midi Onodera in Conversation with Milada Kovacova For online screening information: http://the8fest.com/ OUT OF PLACE’s mission is to bring to the foreground the small-gauge work by […]

For the month of April (and perhaps beyond) the Canadian Filmmaker’s Distribution Centre is hosting a free, multi-event, public symposium that investigates and responds to the living archive of the CFMDC. I have produced the series, SuperWomen: Conversations with the Real Action Figures. This is a collection of interviews with seven astounding women who have […]

Over the last few months, I’ve been contacted by some film fans who were interested in seeing Skin Deep. Although I don’t actively distribute this title, since it was really produced as a commercial feature film, I will upon request provide access to those who are interested. The film has taken on new meaning as […]

This month the “Bulletin, a journal of Japanese Canadian community, history and culture” published an interview with me about the EXC-19.com project. You can read it here .

September 4 to October 10, 2020 I am thrilled to announce my exhibition, TOO MUCH TIME ON MY HANDS on now at Centre 3 in Hamilton. This is a two part show – in gallery and online. The show is curated by the amazing artist Lesley Loksi Chan There will be an artist talk on […]

MANO-RAMO (The Media Arts Network of Ontario/Réseau des arts médiatiques de l’Ontario) is please to invite the general public to the launch of OTHER PLACES Reflections of Media Arts in Canada, edited by Deanna Bowen. In order to celebrate the publication of the book, MANO-RAMO is organizing a series of screenings, talks and opportunities to […]

REEL ASIAN FILM FESTIVAL REEL IDEAS: Conference Friday November 8, 2019, 5pm Bashir Yerex Presentation Space 401 Richmond St. W. Toronto Concluding a jam-packed day of panels, discussions and screening, I will be giving an Artist Talk and screening with Lulu Wei. Midi Onodera is an artist, a filmmaker, an innovator, and an inveterate experimenter. […]

Thrilled to invite all to 2 screenings of my video, “Grief Without Fantasy” (2012). This is visualization of the poem by the same name by Ronna Bloom. Screening at FLY BY NIGHT OUTDOOR SCREENING AND SOUND PERFORMANCES Sat., July 6, 2019, 7:00 pm (Rain date: Sat., July 20, 2019) Lee Lifeson Art Park 223 Gladys […]

I am very pleased to announce that I was selected as one of five finalists for the 2018 Premier’s Award for Excellence in the Arts. My fellow finalists were Klyde Broox, Dan Commanda, Naoko Matsubara and Paulette Phillips. The winner was Philip Akin. Thanks to Lesley Loksi Chan for the nomination.

My early film, Home Was Never Like This is featured on the digital distribution platform, VUCAVU. Nightmares of Dreams – Trajectories Towards a City, is guest curated by Rhayne Vermette, an artist and film programmer for WNDX. This program explores the dichotomy between urban and rural geographies though the work of four Canadian short films. […]