Ten Cents a Dance (Parallax)

A film by Midi Onodera

Canada | 1986 | 30 minutes | Color | 16mm/DVD | Order No. 99132

SYNOPSIS

Onodera's three-part reflection on contemporary sexuality and communication uses a split screen device with a new twist. In the first segment, two women awkwardly discuss their mutual attraction; the second depicts anonymous bathroom sex between two men; the third is an ironic episode of heterosexual phone sex.

SCREENING HIGHLIGHTS AND AWARDS

  • Toronto Festival of Festivals
  • Oberhausen Film Festival
  • San Francisco Int'l Lesbian and Gay Film Festival
  • NY Gay and Lesbian Experimental Film Festival

ABOUT FILMMAKER(S)

Midi Onodera

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 “ow 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 Museum, 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. (8/14)

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