Kaori Oda Filmes

"Ars longa, vita brevis" – art is long, life is short. This is one of Japanese music icon Ryuichi Sakamoto's favorite quotes, and the message...

This film documents the "FUKUSHIMA with BÉLA TARR", a filmmaking workshop in Fukushima conducted by esteemed Hungarian filmmaker Tarr...

Cenotes—sources of water that in ancient Mayan civilization were said to connect the real world and the afterlife. The past and present of the...

Miners in a Bosnian coal mine. The camera silently watches over the miners working tirelessly amidst endless noise and the flickering light of...

A woman descends into a surreal odyssey of fragmented memories after waking with excruciating neck pain.

A storyteller of peace serves as a guide in the “Gama”—natural caves where many local people lost their lives during the Battle of...

A shadow reveals its form from the darkness underground. It communicates with a woman's consciousness, and she begins to see fragmentary memories...

Sexual abuse has been characterized as a “murder of the spirit.” But is this a suffering that one person must bear alone? Beyond despair,...

A train runs at night. Goldfish float in passenger’s dreams.

8mm short shot at night from the Osaka bay where the river flows into the sea

A cowherd, sheep, and the wind, all have an equal presence in the village. Death and life are one and indivisible.

In a train from Sarajevo to Zagreb, looking at the landscape of the foreign country from a window, I somehow felt nostalgic and a question crossed my...

Moments in the life of a young Japanese filmmaker in Bosnia, charged with acoustic and visual poetry. Buoyant and essayistic entries in a process of...

An omnibus movie produced to commemorate the 10th anniversary of Motomachi Eigakan.

“Light and darkness, brightness and obscurity, or if a more general expression is preferred, light and its absence, are necessary to the...

A moving image work from director Kaori Oda.

The experiment presents a cinematic poem to filmmaking and film itself. Directed by eleven filmmakers, all under the vision of Bela Tarr's...

A moving image work from Kaori Oda, inspired by the film "Desperate Man Blues".