Skin Deep

Directed by Midi Onodera

Canada, 1994 (experimental / fiction, 88 minutes, colour)

Film Description:
"Important for its immersion in gender and sexual identity, Skin Deep is a psychological thriller about Alex, a filmmaker fascinated with body art, and her unstable aide, Chris. Their professional and personal worlds become inextricably intertwined."
-- Magali Simard (source)

Film Credits (partial):
Written by:	Midi Onodera, Barbara O'Kelly
Produced by:	Mehernaz Lentin, Phillip Ing, Midi Onodera
Principal Cast:	Natsuko Ohama, Keram Malicki-Sanchez, Dana Brooks, Melanie Nicholls-King, David Crean
Cinematography:	Robert MacDonald
Film Editing:	Sarah Peddie
Music:	Kathryn Moses
Production Company:	Daruma Pictures

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Notes about Skin Deep

Shown at the Toronto International Film Festival in 1995.

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Quotes about Skin Deep

"Skin Deep dramatizes an unprecedented panoply of overlapping gender performances and self-conceptions in unvarnished human detail, with each character judging and misjudging the others, in a calculated rejection of idealization."
-- Jonathan Culp (source)

"[Midi] Onodera's film [Skin Deep] looks at the way we preconceive gender and sexuality and tries to break down some of society's limiting notions of what it is to be female or male."
-- Alison Darren (source)

Bibliography for Skin Deep

Dissertation Chapters

Sivak, Nadine. "Exposing the Limits of Knowledge: The Displaced View and Skin Deep." In "'Howwe Gonna Find My Me?': Postcolonial Identities in Contemporary North American Drama and Film," 99-139. PhD diss., University of Toronto, 2000.