Quote:
"Part oral history, part minimalist expression, The Displaced View succeeds by grafting several identities together; [Midi] Onodera finds identity through difference. Like Speak Body [by Kay Armatage] and Our Marilyn [by Brenda Longfellow], Onodera's film uses memory to filter the information; she 'makes up the past for you' to fill in the silence. We see images through her voice. 'Onodera' within the film investigates the meaning of the photographs, the questions of identity, then poses those questions to her grandmother in person. All three of these films adopt an experimental polyphonic strategy, intended to oppose dominant forms of representation, and address the cinematic apparatus and its ideological inscription."
-- Kass Banning

Source:
Banning, Kass. "The Canadian Feminist Hybrid Documentary." CineAction, no. 26/27 (Winter 1992). (p. 113)