Memoirs of a Geisha this Ain't! - World Premiere of New Film by Midi Onodera

This Saturday, March 4th, the Praxis Centre for Screenwriters and Cineworks present the WORLD PREMIERE of Toronto writer-director Midi Onodera’s feature-length experimental narrative, I HAVE NO MEMORY OF MY DIRECTION at SFU Harbour Centre Terasen Cinema. Don’t miss out on the Q&A chat session with Midi to follow after the screening.

There’s an old Japanese proverb “Juu-nin to-iro” (literally “10 people, 10 colours”) which translates into “different strokes for different folks.” This concept will undoubtedly make an appearance in I Have No Memory of My Direction. The film’s narrator, a Canadian-born Japanese woman, dreams her way through Japan as she searches for an emotional connection with her aging father while contemplating her own inherited cultural and familial touchstones.

Onodera's work includes 25 independent short films, notably The Basement Girl. Her work has been screened at, oh, prestigious film festivals you might have heard about in Toronto and Berlin.

Midi's interpretation of her films: "Being a third-generation Japanese Canadian, being a woman and being a lesbian are all things about me that come together in my films. They all have a personal edge."

As an added note, how can you miss a film like I Have No Memory of My Direction, which was shot with an enviable array of gadgets!? – digital video, super 8, Lomographic Supersampler, Barbie Wireless Videocam, Intel Digital camera, Tyco and Trendmaster toy video cameras.

SCREENING: Saturday, March 4, 7:30 pm
SFU Harbour Centre Terasen Cinema
515 West Hastings Street, Vancouver

ADMISSION: $8/$5 Praxis and Cineworks members + students (tix at door)

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