Kaori Oda Movies

"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...

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

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...

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

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

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

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

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

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

When Kacchi came back home for summer break from abroad, she came out to her family as a homosexual. Her mother and father couldn't take it and...

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

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...

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

Karaoke Cafe BOSA is located in the suburbs of Osaka. It’s a place where elderly neighbors gather to chat and sing. The film captures BOSA in...

A moving image work from director Kaori Oda.