I Have No Memory of My Direction
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- Data Source
- Archives
- Part Of
- Richard Fung fonds
- Description Level
- File
- Material Type
- Moving image
- Date Range
- 2005
- Scope and Content
- Midi Onodera is an award-winning Canadian filmmaker who has been directing, producing and writing films for over twenty years. She has over twenty-five independent short films to her credit as well as a theatrical feature film and several video shorts. Her recent works feature a collage of formats …
- Data Source
- Archives
- Part Of
- Richard Fung fonds
- Description Level
- File
- Material Type
- Moving image
- Date Range
- 2005
- Fonds Number
- F0134
- Series Number
- 15
- File Number
- F0134-15-077
- Physical Description
- 1 optical disc (1 hr., 16 min., 57 sec.) : DVD, single layer, col., NTSC, 4:3, sd., stereo ; 12 cm + 1 original packaging
- Scope and Content
- Midi Onodera is an award-winning Canadian filmmaker who has been directing, producing and writing films for over twenty years. She has over twenty-five independent short films to her credit as well as a theatrical feature film and several video shorts. Her recent works feature a collage of formats and mediums - ranging from 16mm film to Hi8 video to digital video and low end digital toy formats such as a modified Nintendo Game Boy Camera, the Intel Mattel computer microscope, the Tyco and Trendmasters video cameras. Midi's films have been critically recognized and included in numerous exhibitions and screenings internationally. Some highlights include the Andy Warhol Museus, the International Festival of Documentary and Short Films, Bilbao, Spain; the Rotterdam International Film Festival; the Berlin International Film Festival; the National Gallery of Canada and a number of screenings at the Toronto International Film Festival. I Have No Memory of My Direction is a feature length experimental narrative. The story unfolds through a Canadian-born Japanese woman's voice-over as she dreams her way through Japan. Ostensibly searching for an emotional connection with her aging father, the woman contemplates her own inherited culture and familial touchstones. Her North American pop culture sensibility fuses with a distorted Japanese perspective to create a surreal interpretation of a Japan of the imagination. This fictional landscape is peppered with invented Japanese myths, ruminations on memory loss, the temporal space of digital photography and the ghosts of inherited imagination. Directed by Midi Onodera.
- Storage Location
- Box 12
- Access Restrictions
- Open
- Accession Number
- 2019-086