Feature drama, colour, 35 mm
Available in the original English version and the dubbed French version

 

 


SKIN DEEP
A film by Midi Onodera
85 minutes 1995
A Daruma Pictures Production


"... a wholly original take on
obsession and identity ...
stylish ... uncompromisingly
provocative ... "
-Bill Brownstein, THE GAZETTE

"SKIN DEEP makes a shrewd
assessment of both what it takes
to be a filmmaker and of a chic,
brittle world of sexual minorities
and ambiguities."
-Kevin Thomas, LOS ANGELES TIMES

"Onodera's work shows the
universality of life experienced
'at the margins' ... "
-Martha Wilson, THE JAPAN TIMES

"SKIN DEEP examines fluid sexuality."
-Annie Ilkow, MIRROR

"Ambitous and intriguing."
-XTRA!
 

Award winning director Alex Koyama is poised to make her next feature -- a film about love,
obsession and trendy tattoos. When Alex places an ad for a production assistant in a tattoo
magazine, young, transgendered Chris responds. Alex sees potential for research and enters
into a disturbing power-game with Chris. Ignoring the warnings of friends and her lover, Alex
allows Chris' infatuation with her to spiral out of control. The consequences are tragically
drawn out as the drama of Alex's own life supercedes her created fiction.

SKIN DEEP peels away the layers of a person's identity as it leads the viewer into worlds where
people are never what they appear to be.
Gallery
 
 

DOMINO FILM PRESENTS A DARUMA PICTURES PRODUCTION "SKIN DEEP" A FILM BY MIDI ONODERA STARRING NATSUKO OHAMA, KERAM MALICKI-SANCHEZ, DANA BROOKS, MELANIE NICHOLLS-KING AND DAVID CREAN PRODUCTION DESIGNER BILL LAYTON MUSIC BY KATHRYN MOSES EDITED BY SARAH PEDDIE CINEMATOGRAPHY BY ROBERT MACDONALD SCREENPLAY MIDI ONODERA AND BARBARA O'KELLY PRODUCED BY MIDI ONODERA, MEHERNAZ LENTIN AND PHILLIP ING DIRECTED BY MIDI ONODERA

Another critically acclaimed film from
DOMINO'S CANADIAN COLLECTION

French version